Contributory pensions amount to 8.18 billion euros in March

The average retirement pension stood at 1,015.8 euros, 2.1% higher than in the same period last year. The average pension from the Spanish Social Security system as a whole, which includes all the various types of pension available (retirement, permanent disability, widowhood, orphanhood, and those paid out to relatives), stood at 882.7 euros per month, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.8%.

The total number of contributory pensions in the month stood at 9,270,398, which equates to a year-on-year increase of 1.2%. More than half of these, 5,616,199, are retirement pensions, while 2,349,637 are widowhood pensions, 928,125 are permanent disability pensions, 337,890 are orphanhood pensions and 38,547 are pensions paid out to relatives.