After the summer recess, the Euskal Herria Pensioners’ Movement will continue to demand a minimum pension of 1,080 euros from 4 September.
The Euskal Herria pensioners’ movement will resume on Monday September 4in Bilbao and Pamplona and the 11th in San Sebastián and Vitoria-Gasteiz, as well as in another 80 Basque towns, their weekly demonstrations.
After the summer break, the Basque pensioners will continue to protest with their protests minimum pension of 1080 euros “as an immediate commitment from the next government, retroactive to January 2023”.
They also claim “supplement of the minimum income up to 1080 euros of retirees in the next budgets” and recovery for December “the compensatory wage for the loss of purchasing power of pensions”, among other demands.
As explained in a statement from the Pensioners’ Movement, following the July 23 general election, the group is demanding that the next executive to include its proposals in the government’s program. ‘There have been elections, but the problems of pensioners have not disappeared’has underlined.
For example, he warned that the increase in the cost of living “It drastically deteriorates” living conditions and makes it “increasingly difficult to access healthy food and medicines, decent housing conditions that ensure mobility and adequate temperature, and access to social and health services for dependency care.”
So he stated that “the interannual CPI is 5% and the 2023 core is 6.2%”with which “how is it possible to maintain and improve living conditions when the minimum pension is 743 euros and 167,718 retirees, mostly women, retirees in the Basque Autonomous Community and 51,306 in Navarre have an income of less than 1,080 euros”.
Source: EITB
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