The average pension in our city has risen, during the Government of Pedro Sánchez, from 1,150 euros to 1,531 euros per month, that is, there has been an increase of 381 euros per month.
The Delegate of the Government in Melilla, Sabrina Moh, has valued this revaluation that benefits almost 9,000 melillenses and that translates into that our city receives, as a pension payment, about 11 million euros per month. “This government has carried out the biggest increases in pensions,” he said.
Thus, the head of the Government Delegation has stressed that contributory pensions will be revalued overall by 2.8% in 2025. “It is the fourth year that pensions are revalued according to the CPI: 2.8% in 2025, 3.8% in 2024, 8.5% in 2023 and 2.5% in 2022,” he recalled.
In fact, the highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has compared the system of revaluation of pensions that is being carried out by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez with the model that was implemented by the Government of the PP, which represented an increase of 0.25% indistinctly of the rise that the IPC experienced.
“With the system applied by the PP Government, the increase, in the same period of time, in our city would have been for Melilla pensioners of only 17 euros per month,” he said.
Thus, Moh explained that, the improvement of pensions with the current system means, on average for pensioners from Melilla, an increase of 5,334 euros per year. However, if the popular system had been maintained, that increase would have been reduced to 238 euros per year.
“For the Government of Pedro Sánchez, the defense of the public pension system is an absolute priority. While the People’s Party cut the pension system for more than eight years, for the current Executive its objective is to raise the pensions of the present and, of course, guarantee those of tomorrow,” he stressed.
As Moh recalled, the PP government carried out a pension reform, using the roller of its absolute majority, “with which it condemned our pensioners to a brutal loss of purchasing power”, given that “year after year they were impoverished because their pensions rose by 0.25%, or in other words, just over one euro a month, well below the cost of living”.
Faced with this, the government headed by Pedro Sánchez has linked the revaluation of pensions to the increase in the CPI. “We are going to continue dignifying pensions and revaluing them according to the increase in the cost of living, because that is what our seniors deserve,” he said, and assured that “we will continue working for decent pensions and defending public policies that adapt to the needs of our pensioners.”
“We have shown that you can have a viable pension system that guarantees social justice,” he said, stressing that “whatever the circumstances, our elders must be certain that the protection of the purchasing power of their pension will always be guaranteed.”
“The Melilla pensioners, with the PP method, would have stopped earning 367 euros a month. If instead of Pedro Sánchez being president today, we had had a PP government during this time, our pensioners would have lost 5,096 euros a year,” he said.
PP, against the rise
The Government Delegate recalled that the people, when they were in government, condemned our elders to lose purchasing power, and, since they were in opposition, have been against the revaluation of pensions under the CPI.
“It is clear that with the governments of the PP the situation of pensioners is precarious. The popular only think of those who can afford private pension plans,” he lamented.
He has therefore been very critical of the fact that Núñez Feijóo’s party has refused to raise pensions under the CPI. “It has given them just as our elders lost purchasing power every year,” he added.
Not only that, he recalled that the PP was dedicated to emptying the pension fund, given that between 2012 and 2017 they raised 74,437 million euros. “The PP almost left it empty, while, thanks to the policies of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, the Social Security Reserve Fund has exceeded 9.3 billion,” he said.
At this point, he said that “these are the two ways of acting before the citizens.” “Ours is clear: protecting and moving forward. And yours is to create uncertainty and cut rights,” he said clearly.
“With the government of Pedro Sánchez we defend an egalitarian society and that our seniors have a dignified retirement because they deserve it,” concluded Moh.