Monthly widow benefits increased by 28% in five years. This is followed by the latest statistics published by the Ministry of Social Security at the end of April (this is the figure that occurs when comparing the fourth month of 2020 since 2025). The number of pensioners remains almost at the same level – with a small decrease in 0.15% – while Revaluation gives a monthly amount devoted to the payment of benefits. When comparing the last full years (2020 compared to 2024), the increase is 23%. This is one of the awaiting social security reforms since 2020, when Toledo, its modification in favor of a pension in an orphanage was included in the recommendations. This is, in particular, recommendation No. 13 (total 21). These proposals arise “in defense of maintaining and improving the state pension system” and “should serve as the basis for the reforms that the government should carry out”, as stated in the document.
In addition, as described in detail by the text published by Toledo Pact from 2020 and published in the official newspaper Cortes, the commission suggests gradually gradually executing Comprehensive reformulation of benefits for death and survival – A special widow. Demand really arises in 2003; However, despite the achievements, it was not fully carried out in the 2007 reform. So far, this has not yet been with the reform, which began in 2021 and is still taking its last steps.
The last movements of the government regarding the reform of benefits were fair a year ago. In April 2024, the leader said that the widow is a pension Take into account the years of BIAND of the SEARHURED during the calculation. Sis did this in its first appearance as a minister in front of the Coveledo Congress Pact Commission, when she pointed to this route as one of the “lines of actions” in order to fulfill the mandate “comprehensive and gradual reform”. The other line, the minister, calculates in detail, passes through guaranteeing the protection of beneficiaries of 65 or more years, whose pension includes their main source of income.
A year later, the ministry did not suffer token. The sources of the Department conducted by this newspaper explain that the priorities are currently flexible pension reforms – the escort already agreed upon in June – and progressive high ones – which the Minister plans to approve this year – both are in the process of negotiations with social agents.
Currently, in order to calculate the amount of the widow’s pension, the dead regulatory framework is taken into account, in general, 52% of this framework, although in some cases it can be increased to 70%. In addition, the reform of widowskie and orphans does not appear in the annual regulatory plan by 2025, which includes legislative changes for this exercise.
Figures
The widow’s pension is The second game of expenses As part of the wages that social security pays a month after a month, only for a pension allowance (which requires 73% of the budget, 9,882 million). In particular, it is 16% of the total of 2192 million euros. In addition, he survived the consistent increase obtained as a result of revaluation. In the period from 2020 to 2025, wages increased by 0.9% in 2021; 2.5% in 2022; 8.5% in 2023; 3.8% in 2024 and 2.8% in 2025.
The current profile of the person who charges the widow’s pension is a woman (in 91% of cases), which charges an average of 962.41 euros per month and 79 years. However, although the Middle Ages are high, there are beneficiaries who still work. In particular, according to April, A total of 306,047 people who benefit, and who are less than 64 years old (and, therefore, below the retirement age). 2 043 187 The remaining beneficiaries exceed this age.
The widowhood pension comes from the economic dependence, which existed in the past between women and men, in order to protect them from the first from the death of her husband. Now, however, the proposal for reform includes the adaptation of the benefits “to new social realities and socio -economic circumstances of the beneficiaries in order to improve the protection of pensioners without other resources.” In particular, the text mentions, especially the fact that people over 65 years old, whose pension is their main source of income and improves the amount of pension in the orphanage.
Recommendation No. 13
The commission under the Toledo Agreement, approved in October 2020 (before the reform of the Espir), is a total of 21 recommendations, a document that should serve as the basis for the reforms that the government should carry out. He did this with all political groups in favor of VOX, and among the proposals included various changes. Among them, the commission indicated the need to reform pensions of the widow and shelter.
The proposed measures protect the deposit nature of benefits; Although they believe that he should focus on protecting those older than 65 years (whose pension is the main source of income) and adopt the benefits for orphans. For this, the commission He proposed to take into account his formula for calculating the periods of contributions accredited by the dead.
