- The minimum pensions reach 176,669 beneficiaries in Madrid
- The minimum average retirement pension reaches 903.45 and the widow's pension euros/month 928.48
- Meanwhile, the average general pension that includes all, rises by 4.4% compared to last year
- These minimum benefits include people with permanent disability, orphanhood, family favor, as well as retirement and widowhood
Social Security has paid 176,669 minimum pensions in Madrid in January, which are those intended to cover workers with benefits, which will vary depending on whether the pensioner has reached a certain age and whether or not he or she has dependants, provided that he or she does not exceed the established income limit.
Of the total pensions, 86,176 belong to retirement benefits in general with an average pension of 903.45 and 24,086 correspond to self-employed persons with an average of 969.79 euros. Widowhood pensions amount to 44,179 of which more than 31,459 correspond to the general scheme and 12,720 to self-employed persons with an average of 934 euros.
As for disability pensions, only 0.60% currently correspond to occupational accidents or occupational diseases.
At the national level
In February, they have subscribed 6.7 million retirement pensions and 2.3 million widow’s pensions of the Social Security System, in addition to more than one million permanent disability pensions, more than 335,000 orphans and 46,600 in favour of relatives.
Average pensions
La average pension of the system social security 1,366.2 Euros this month, 4.5% more than in the same month of the previous year. This average includes the amount of the different types of pension (retirement, permanent disability, widowhood, orphanhood and in favour of family members). La average retirement pensionwhich accounts for more than two-thirds of the total number of pensioners (6.6 million people), 1.566.8 euros per month, 4.4% more than in February 2025.
By regimes, the amount of the average retirement pension from General Regime is of 1,727.2 euros per month, while in the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Persons es de 1,056.5 euros. In the coal mining, the average pension amount is 2,996 eurosand of 1,731.1 euros in the Regime of the Sea. The monthly amount of the new retirement highs in the system ascended to 1,865.8 euros on average, according to the latest available data, which are from January. Regarding the average pension of widows, in February reached 972.8 euros every month.
Payroll and pensions by class
The monthly payroll of contributory pensions of Social Security reached €14.272.5 billion. Tres cuartas partes de la nómina de pensiones contributivas corresponden a pensiones de retirement, as usual. Specifically, these pensions account for 73.2% of the payroll, 10,451.3 million of euros. A pensions widows have been destined 2,275.8 million in euros, while the payroll of the benefits for permanent disability ascend to 1,322.9 million; that of orphanhood, to 184.4 million of euros and that of benefits for family members, to 38.2 million.
Delayed retirement increases and early retirement decreases
The January data consolidate the trend of sustained growth in delayed retirements while reducing the number of early retirees. Throughout 2025, they were recorded 375,324 new highs in retirement pensions, of which less than 30% were early retirement (27.9%), This is 12.1 percentage points less than in 2019, before the reforms implemented, when they represented 40% of new retirements. In total, they were discharged 104,655 Early retirements. El 72.1% of new retirees acceded with ordinary age (270.622).
In this same period, the 10.9% de las altas corresponded to the modality of delayed retirement, Compared to the 4.8% they accounted for in 2019. Son 40,952 tall Of this type, while in 2019 they barely reached 14,000. As a result of the voluntary delay in the time of withdrawal and the minor advance, the average age of access in retirement is situated in 65.3 years, when in 2019 it was 64.4. It should be remembered that in 2022 new incentives for delayed access to retirement came into force and the legal framework for early retirement was reconfigured.