Pensions 2024
The reform regulating flexible retirement is in force in the South Basque Country
As a novelty, self-employed workers will also be able to apply for flexible retirement, as up to now only salaried workers have been able to apply.
The average amount of pensions in the Basque Country has increased by 4.1% and now exceeds €1,648
The most common forms of pension have been retirement (398,600 pensions and an average amount of €1,909.25), widowhood (€132,270 and €1,170.41) and permanent incapacity (€43,031 and €1,590.25).
Bizkaia pensioners demonstrated today in Bilbao, in the middle of Big Week, to claim once again decent pensions
The march has been called in the atmosphere of Big Week, as the motto of the main banner says, to recall that "at parties too, pensioners are on the streets."\u00The movement has strongly criticized the attitude of the Basque Government, denouncing the early rejection of its popular legislative initiative. Pensio minimum wage and calling for the guarantee of public, universal and free health care systems.
Pensioners will again demand in Vitoria next Thursday that minimum pensions be supplemented up to the SMI
With this mobilisation, they would like to remind the Basque Government and Parliament that 'the commitment that the supplement to minimum pensions should reach the SMI cannot be extended any longer, especially when the cost of living is becoming significantly higher', pensioners have argued.
Pensioners don't want to be a bargaining chip
Convened by the Euskal Herria Pensioners' Movement, thousands of people have demonstrated in Bilbao and Donostia-San Sebastián. The group has again demanded that minimum pensions be equated with the minimum inter-professional wage, especially so that women pensioners "live in dignity and reach the end of the month".
Será noticia: víspera de Santa Águeda, prohibición de RRSS a menores y decreto sobre pensiones
The Council of Ministers has approved, in a single decree, the increase in pensions by 2026
Contributory pensions will be increased by 2.7 per cent, the minimum pensions will be increased by more than 7 per cent, and widows' pensions with family burdens, non-contributory pensions and the Minimum Living Income will be increased by 11.4 per cent. These increases have been reflected in a Royal Decree-Law that has finally dissociated itself from the so-called "social shield" to be approved in Congress and guaranteed the purchasing power of pensioners.
Pensions and evictions will be approved by the Spanish Government in two separate decrees
The Spanish Government has finally approved in two decrees the revaluation of pensions, as well as other measures of social shield, in order to obtain the agreement of the groups and, on the other hand, the extension of the suspension of evictions.
Pensioners consider it "unacceptable" that pensions do not reach the minimum wage
The Euskal Herria Pensioners' Movement has denounced that the value of pensions "depends on the political decisions of the year".
The average retirement pension in the Basque Country is EUR 1841.80 per month, the highest in the State
By territory, the average retirement pension in Bizkaia is €1,873.61, in Álava €1,857.58 and in Gipuzkoa €1,788.35.
The Spanish Government will increase minimum pensions by 7% and extend the quotas of self-employed persons by 2026
The last meeting of the year also agreed, among other things, to increase the minimum living income by 11.4%.
The pensioners' movement is holding a 24-hour lockdown in Vitoria-Gasteiz on the eve of this Thursday's demonstrations
About 50 pensioners are holding a 24-hour lock-up at the Coronation Church in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Tomorrow, at the end of the lock-up, they will demonstrate in the Alavesa capital to claim a supplement to the minimum pensions equal to the Interprofessional Minimum Wage, which is also called in Pamplona.
The annual CPI rate remains at 3.2% in the ACV and rises to 3% in Navarre in November
On the other hand, contributory pensions will increase by around 2.7% by 2026, according to the revaluation formula provided for in the pension reform law, which takes into account the average annual CPI from December to November.
The Social Security will propose to freeze the quotas of self-employed persons with lower incomes by 2026
"The proposal on which the Ministry is working and which is listening to the collective, for next year, involves the freezing of the first three sections in the lowest part of the table," said Elma Saiz, Minister for Social Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
Macron will appoint a new prime minister before the weekend, following Lecornu's resignation
In an interview this Wednesday on France 2, acting French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said his "mission is over."
The Imserso trips are on sale this Monday
New developments include the possibility of travelling with animals in certain hotels on trips to the peninsular coast and islands, for which 2% of places will be reserved.
Mass demonstration of pensioners in Vitoria to express their indignation
Hundreds of pensioners have demonstrated from the Plaza de la Virgen Blanca to the Basque Parliament for failing to take into consideration the People's Legislative Initiative that they themselves brought to the Chamber. The proposal was supported by 140,000 signatures and has been supported by EH Bildu and Sumar.
The Basque Parliament has rejected the proposal to equate minimum pensions with the minimum wage
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EH Bildu calls on PNV and PSE not to "turn their backs" on the pension debate
EH Bildu calls on PNV and PSE to open the debate on pensions. They consider it a serious and worrying mistake to turn their backs on the petition of more than 145,000 people.