• The payroll of contributory pensions in October exceeds 743.2 million euros in Castilla y León • 621,819 contributory pensions are paid to more than 570,000 Castilian pensioners • There are 36,426 benefits that add up to the gender gap

October 24, 2023.- Expenditure on contributory pensions stands at 11.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the last 12 months, until October.

The monthly payroll of the Social Security contributory benefits in the month of October was 12,075.3 million euros.

Distribution according to pension class in Castilla y León

Nearly three-quarters of October’s contributory pension payroll relates to retirement pensions, or EUR 552 million. A total of Euro127.2 million has been earmarked for widows' pensions, while the payroll for permanent disability benefits amounts to Euro50.7 million, the payroll for orphans to Euro9.8 million and the payroll for family members to Euro2.7 million.

Of the 621,819 contributory pensions paid, 403,284 are for retirement, 150,065 for widows, 45,455 for permanent incapacity, 19,113 for orphans and 3,902 for relatives. The number of pensions is growing at a year-on-year rate of 0.88%.

For its part, the number of pensioners is 570,487 as of October 1. Of these, 265,339 are men and 305,148 women. The pension with the most beneficiaries is that of retirement.

Average Pension

The average pension of the system amounts to 1,195.22 euros per month. This amount includes the different types of pension (retirement, permanent disability, widowhood, orphanhood and in favour of family members).

The average retirement pension of the system, for its part, is 1,370.30 euros. For its part, the average widow’s pension is 853.3 euros per month; the permanent disability pension is 1,115.73 euros; the orphan’s pension is 516.65 euros per month and the pension in favour of relatives is 716.09 euros per month.

Gender gap add-ons in Castilla y León

In October, 36,426 pensions received the gender gap supplement. The average monthly amount of this supplement in the pension is 67 euros. Of the 36,426 supplementary pensions, 8,545 are pensioners with one child, who previously did not have access to the maternity supplement. 16,853 beneficiaries have two children; 6,827, with three, and four children, 4,201.

The gender gap supplement, in force since February 2021, consists of a fixed amount, after the revaluation applied in 2023, of 30.40 euros per month per child, which applies from the first child, unlike the previous maternity supplement. It is requested at the same time as the pension is requested.

Passive classes in Spain

For its part, the monthly pension payroll of Passive Classes amounted to 1,495.3 million euros in the month of September, the last available figure. This figure represents an increase of 166.5 million euros compared to the previous year, 12.5% more.

The number of pensions in force was 698,906, 13,428 more pensions than in the same month of the previous year (1.9% annual variation).

The Passive Class System of the State includes primarily military and civilian personnel of the General Administration of the State, the Administration of Justice, the General Courts and other constitutional or State bodies, as well as officials transferred to the autonomous communities.

Full information on contributory pensions in the Social Security System can be found in the attached file.

Also, the eSTADISS application, located in http://run.gob.es/estadiss it allows to obtain statistical information on Social Security pensions, with selection of the parameters that are of interest and possibility to export the results in different formats.

For more statistical information on Passive Class pensions: https://www.portalclasespasivas.gob.es/