The Government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has highlighted “the commitment” of the Government of Spain to retirees and retirees who this January have been applied an 8.5% increase to their contributory pensions, reaching an average of 1,456 euros in Cantabria, 114 euros more than last December, and who, since 2018, have seen their pensions increased by almost 277 euros on average.
For Quiñones, the increase in pensions promoted by the Government of Spain shows that this Executive works with “commitment and determination” so that “the retirees of our country and our Autonomous Community receive a more dignified pension”.
The delegate of the Government has indicated this in statements to the press this Wednesday, January 25, in which “the pensioners and retirees of Cantabria and the whole country are seeing their pension revalued thanks to the commitment, work and determination of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to make it possible”.
Quiñones has held a meeting with the provincial director of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) in Cantabria, Eva Suárez, to analyze the direct impact on the Cantabrians of the revaluation of pensions and that becomes effective this Wednesday, with an increase of 8.5% for contributory pensions and of 15% in the case of non-contributory pensions.
According to Quiñones, this is an increase that raises the average retirement pension in Cantabria to 1,456 euros, which is 114 euros more than in 2022. “Far from the 1,179 euros of average pension that a Cantabrian retiree received in 2018,” he said, noting that, on average, it is almost 277 euros more than five years ago.
“We have a government committed to the welfare of the social majority, with measures such as the revaluation of pensions under the CPI to guarantee the purchasing power of pensioners”, added the delegate of the Government, who stressed that the application of this increase, and based on the average pension, “in practice amounts to about 1,500 euros more per year” and, in relation to income, “it is as if they were given a pay more than in 2022, as if they received 15 pay instead of 14”.
Thus, Quiñones has pointed out that, “in the day-to-day, pensioners will see their purchasing power increased by more than 100 euros per month, specifically 114 on average in Cantabria” and this, “in these times of enormous difficulties, is good news for the 90,302 Cantabrians who receive a retirement pension”.
And, he emphasized, “we talk about an update of pensions that makes it possible for the average pension to increase by 23% more than with the update under the CPI that the Government agreed with the social agents.”
He also indicated that, of course, this is a “very substantial increase” in relation to “what it would have been if the 0.25% formula applied by the previous Executive had continued to be applied”. At this point, he pointed out that, with that formula, the average pension would have been increased from 2022 to 2023 by 2.98 euros and, between 2018 and 2023, by 14.81 euros.
“It is necessary to make this comparison because, when we talk about pensions, we talk about a right of the citizens of our country. We are talking about the fact that, from today, every 25th day, the pensioners and pensioners of our country and of Cantabria will receive a more dignified pension. We talk about the fact that this government has shown that we have another way to deal with crises and that, faced with the cuts and privatizations of the past, now with this government there is social justice and fiscal justice”, he concluded.