The Social Security closed the first seven months of the year with a positive result of 9.162 billion euros, equivalent to 0.5% of GDP. This balance is obtained after total revenues of 154.231 billion euros, 7.8% more than a year earlier, against expenses of 145.069 billion, which increased by 7%,...
The Secretary of State for Social Security and Pensions, Borja Suárez, led the signing ceremony of the agreement for the application of the Social Security convention maintained by Spain and the Philippines this Friday.This instrument specifies the commitment of both States to strengthen collaboration between their institutions to raise the...
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, met this Thursday with the president of the General Council of the Spanish Bar Association, Salvador González, to whom she has once again conveyed the Government's commitment to give a decisive boost to the processing of the regulation of the...
A report released by the Foundation for Applied Economic Studies (Fedea) raises the need to review how the one-time payment linked to delayed retirement is calculated, in order to reduce the systematic differences between beneficiaries, and to reinforce the information that the worker receives at the time of making their...
Having worked for 45 years does not allow one to know by itself how much a person will earn when they retire. The pension after 45 years of contributions is determined by several elements and the main one is not only the duration of the working career, but the contribution...
The Plenary of Congress faces this Thursday the debate and the vote on the report regarding the General State Account of 2024, a document in which the use of nearly 2.4 billion euros from unspent European funds to meet pension payments was highlighted.The Lower House will be the scene of...
The Plenary of the Congress will face this Thursday the debate and the vote on the report regarding the General State Account of 2024, a document that revealed the use of nearly 2.4 billion euros from surplus European funds for the payment of pensions.Specifically, the Lower House will be the...
The head of the Greek Government, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, presented this Saturday the so-called Agreement for Progress and Prosperity, a program that aims to guide the evolution of the national economy over the next four years. The package, valued at about 2.2 billion euros, includes structural reforms with the goal of...
The Iberian fund of Magallanes Value Investors recorded in August a revaluation of its profitability of 2.91%, while the European fund achieved an advance of 3.90%, according to the monthly sheets of the investment funds and the pension plan of the management company corresponding to that period.With these figures, the...
The Union of Professionals and Self-Employed Workers (UPTA) proposes that in 2027 the contributions of self-employed workers be increased by at least three percentage points above the CPI, in order to recover part of the lost purchasing power and improve their future benefits, in a context of blockage at the...
Today, Friday, the Royal Decree that modifies the legal regime of flexible retirement has come into force, with the aim of facilitating that pensioners can continue to be active without completely renouncing their benefit, as was established in its entry into force provision when it was published in May in...
The Social Security has allocated in August a historic maximum of 14,470.4 million euros for the payment of the ordinary payroll of contributory pensions, which represents an increase of 6.2% compared to the same month in 2024, according to what the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration communicated this...
This Tuesday, August 25, several banks are expected to advance the payment of pensions corresponding to this month. BBVA, Ibercaja, Sabadell, ING, Abanca, Cajamar, Kutxabank, and Openbank are among the entities that will make the deposit during this day, according to the usual schedule of bank advances. CaixaBank and Santander,...
Spain registered 156,887 births during the first half of 2026, 1.07% more than in the same period of the previous year. However, as reported by the opening information from DEMÓCRATA about the new birth rate map, the figure remains 43,368 births lower than that recorded a decade ago. This contrast...
The PSOE has emphasized this Sunday that the Government "also does not forget its priorities even on vacation," defending a model of country that "advances, protects, and works," in contrast to what it attributes to PP and Vox, "which divides and regresses.""Against the priorities of PP and Vox, their 'national...
The employment has given the public pension system a decade of oxygen. Spain registered an average of 22,466,339 affiliates to Social Security in June, 605,244 more than a year earlier, which represents a year-on-year growth of 2.77%. At the same time, the number of pensioners is approaching 9.5 million....
There is not a single "day of the aids" in August. Each benefit depends on an organization, payment rules, and, in certain cases, on the advances that the banking entity decides to apply. These are the main dates that should be monitored during August 2026. Unemployment and subsidies: Monday, August...
August opens again one of the most repeated inquiries among pensioners: what day will the monthly payment appear in the bank account. Let us remember that these are dates for the August pension. The Social Security establishes a general rule different from the advanced calendar that banks use. Once the...
The income from contributions to Social Security increased by 7.4% year-on-year with the accumulated data up to June, reaching 93.957 billion euros, which represents 6.453 billion more than in the same period last year.Within this chapter, the resources associated with the Intergenerational Equity Mechanism (MEI), operational since January 1, 2023,...
The total volume of assets distributed in Spain amounted to 1.066 trillion euros at the end of the first half of 2026, according to the latest records provided by the employers' association Inverco.In detail, the assets under management increased by 72.206 billion euros during the second quarter of the year,...
VidaCaixa closed the first half of the fiscal year with a consolidated net profit of 690.7 million euros, which represents an increase of 7% compared to the same period of the previous year, according to the entity's communication this Thursday.The total volume of resources under management exceeded 147 billion euros,...
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, held this Wednesday a meeting with the president of the General Council of the Spanish Bar, Salvador González, in order to cooperate in promoting the regulation that will specify the Law that regulates the voluntary pathway to the Special Regime...
The pension reform approved in 2011 has already resulted in an average postponement of about 8.1 months in the effective retirement age among workers affected by the regulation and is associated with an increase in premature mortality, especially among men. This is concluded by a study from Fedea, the Universitat...
The Social Security has allocated in this month of July a historic disbursement of 14,431.9 million euros to face the ordinary payroll of contributory pensions, which represents an increase of 6.2% compared to the same period of 2025, according to what the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration communicated...
Mutualidad has stated this Friday in a statement that it "celebrates" and "positively values" the law of alternative mutualities approved in Congress this Thursday, understanding that it offers "certainty" and strengthens the financial planning capacity of the mutualists.The insurer emphasizes that the new regulation maintains the alternative nature, reinforces the...