The Council of Ministers approved the Royal Decree on Tuesday. The Pensioners’ Movement of Euskal Herria has denounced that instead of “important decisions that guarantee decent and sufficient public pensions, partial decisions are being made”.
He Euskal Herria Pensioners Movement regrets that the Royal Decree on improving the compatibility of the old-age pension with work “does not meet the most urgent demands” of the group they represent. Similarly, he has denounced that instead of “major decisions guaranteeing decent and sufficient public pensions, partial decisions are being taken” aimed at “hiding the problem of low salaries and pensions”.
He Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday a Royal Decree that allows the development and implementation of the revaluation of pensions and other social security benefits for 2025, as reported on Tuesday by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
The increase, which came into effect on January 1, represents a… 2.8% increase with a general character of the pensions of the state social security system and passive classes; an increase of 9% in non-contributory pensions and the minimum living income and an increase of approximately 6% for minimum pensions.
The pensioners reiterated the demands they have maintained “for more than seven years” in a statement they made public on the occasion of the elections. vote this Wednesday in Congress of the Royal Legislative Decree to improve the compatibility of the old-age pension with work, including the agreement signed in July by the Spanish government, the employers’ organizations CEOE and CEPYME and the trade unions CCOO and UGT.
For example, they have criticized the fact that the Royal Decree-law “does not respond to the most urgent demands” that pensioners have submitted “on repeated occasions” to the political parties with representation in Congress and the state government.
‘Our demands remain unanswered’They have insisted and lamented that they have still not “restored the purchasing power of pensions lost since 2011.”
Likewise, they have warned that “the substantial improvement in minimum pensions “was nipped in the bud in the 2023 reform by setting the target of reaching 100% of the poverty line for minimum contributory pensions and 75% for non-contributory pensions.”
They have denounced this from the Pensioners’ Movement The “austerities” set out in the 2011 reform remain in placesuch as the gradual increase in the retirement age to 67 years or “the increase in the years needed to calculate the pension and access it to 100%”, which, among other things, “reduces pensions”.
They have also stressed that they are continuing “without taking effective decisions” to end the crisis gender gap which, as they have warned, is 37%.
“Thousands of pensioners who have suffered damage to their pensions due to the decreasing coefficients of early retirement, even involuntary, with 40 years or more of contributions, are left without an answer to their demands,” they have criticized.
Source: EITB
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