The Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, said that “pensions of 1,000,000 people in the Valencian Community have increased by more than 23%, against a slight increase of 0.25% if the PP formula had been maintained.” Bernabé has today analyzed the revaluation of pensions carried out by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez with representatives of the Valencià Council of Persones Majors.
After the meeting, the delegate indicated that the average retirement pension will reach 1.253€ this year in the Valencian Community. Thus, he has pointed out, about 650,000 retirees from the Comunitat will benefit from the average increase of 8.5%, or the same thing 1,500 euros more per year for an average retirement pension. “In practice,” said Bernabé, “it means an additional payment: from 14 to 15 payments.”
The delegate explained that if the pension revaluation index projected in 2013 by the previous government had been maintained, the salaries of retirees and pensioners of the Valencian Community would have barely increased by 40 euros. This shows, he added, that “the Government of Pedro Sánchez has shown that there are other ways to face a crisis: we shield power to the purchasing power of pensioners in front of what the PP did”. This is how he remembered that in 2018, an average retirement pension in the Valencian Community “barely exceeded 1,000€, a situation that would have been maintained by the revaluation rate agreed. However, at present, thanks to the measures of the current government, the average pension will be 1.253€”. This figure represents an average revaluation of more than 240 euros between 2018 and 2023. In addition, as he added, in the case of Minimum Vital Income and other non-contributory pensions, the increase is 15%.
The delegate has indicated that “despite the uncertainty and inflation our and our elders see guaranteed purchasing power because this government has an unwavering commitment to the elderly” while stressing “the coordination and work done by the Government with the social partners and the affected groups to respond to a fair request”
Barnabas added that “retirees and retirees must have some decent pensions, regulated by law And without them responding to random criteria of the government on duty.” The revaluation of pensions, he added, “is compatible with the fmodernisation of the accounts of the Public Pension System, thanks to the measures to protect and improve the quality of employment, promoted by the labor reform of this Government.”
For his part, so much the president of the Consell Valencià de Persones Majors, Miguel Jordà, as the representatives of the unions CCOO and UGT en este organismo, Dolores Nauffaal e Isabel Fernández, respectivamente, han coincidido en mostrarse “tremendamente satisfied” in front of “Fair and Adequate” Increase of pensions with which a response is given to a “historical claim”.