Non-contributory pensions will rise by 6.9% in 2024 and the minimum widowhood pension with charges, by 14.1%

MADRID, 12 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Non-contributory pensions, as well as the Minimum Living Income (IMV), will increase by 6.9% in 2024, while the minimum pension for widows with family responsibilities will increase by 14.1%, from the current 905.9 euros per month up to about 1,033.6 euros per month.

The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, has reported these increases on her 'X' account (formerly Twitter), from where she wanted to send a "message of tranquility and guarantee to the pensioners of today and tomorrow ".

The second leg of the pension reform, approved in March of this year and focused on obtaining income to guarantee the sustainability of the system, also contemplated improvements in minimum contributory pensions.

Specifically, the rule establishes that these will experience, from 2024 to 2027, a progressive increase higher than the CPI to ensure that at the end of said period they are not lower than the poverty threshold calculated for a household composed of two adults.

The average inflation for the period December 2022-November 2023 stood, in the absence of confirmation of the advanced data, at 3.8%, so any increase that exceeds that percentage will follow the path marked by the reform.

It will be precisely at this percentage, 3.8%, that contributory pensions will rise next year, based on the reform that was approved in the previous legislature and that links pensions to the evolution of the CPI.

If the same increase announced for non-contributory pensions, of 6.9%, is applied to minimum contributory pensions, the former would increase approximately between 16.5 and 100 euros per month, depending on the type of pension and personal circumstances. That of widows with family responsibilities will do so to a greater extent, with 127.7 euros more per month than in 2023, as a result of its revaluation by 14.1%.

The second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, has stressed on her 'X' account (formerly Twitter) that this increase in pensions "will alleviate day-to-day difficulties, guaranteeing more stability and security."

"When we say that we come to improve people's lives, it is not something abstract. We demonstrate it with facts," remarked the second vice president of the Government.

SAIZ MEETING WITH THE SOCIAL AGENTS ON MONDAY

The new Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, has called for next Monday at 10:30 a.m. the general secretaries of CCOO and UGT, Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarez, and the presidents of CEOE and Cepyme, Antonio Garamendi and Gerardo Cuerva, as reported to Europa Press by union sources.

It will be the minister's first formal meeting with the leaders of the social agents at the Social Security dialogue table since she took office, replacing José Luis Escrivá.

In this legislature, Saiz faces several challenges inherited from the pension reforms undertaken in the previous stage, as well as other new ones included in the commitments acquired by the PSOE to achieve the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as President of the Government.

In the last legislature, the previous minister of the sector carried out several major reforms for the pension system, some with the assistance of social agents and others with the sole support of the unions, which will continue to be deployed in the next period.

During the inauguration of her portfolio, Minister Saiz committed to continue improving minimum and non-contributory pensions, to increase the pension fund and to complete the regulation of early retirement for especially difficult or painful professions.

The new Minister of Social Security also pointed out that in this legislature it will be "key" to continue deploying the pension reform, the new self-employed contribution system and collective pension plans, "very relevant milestones" of the last legislature.