The purchasing power of non-contributory public pensions in 2021 is maintained by decree. Specifically, on December 23, 2021, RDL 30/2021 was published, adopting urgent prevention and containment measures to address the health crisis caused by Covid-19.
Maintenance of the purchasing power of non-contributory pensions in 2021
In the aforementioned RL, Additional Provision 45 of Law 11/2020 of the General State Budget (PGE) was modified. The aforementioned modification states that:
“Pensioners receiving during 2021 non-contributory Social Security pensions, will receive, before April 1, 2022 and in a single payment, an amount equivalent to the difference between the pension they were receiving in 2021 and the one that would have corresponded had they applied to the 2020 amounts a percentage increase equal to the average value of the year-on-year percentage increases of the CPI for the months of December 2020 to November 2021 plus 0.9%, percentage of complementary annual increase with respect to the pensions paid by the Social Security and Passive Classes system. ”
What does the original wording of the PGE say
In said text the following was established with respect to the following. Firstly, pensioners receiving minimum pensions during 2021. Of pensions of the Compulsory Old Age and Disability Insurance (SOVI) not concurrent. As well as those concurrent with widowhood pensions from any of the Social Security system regimes. Recipients of Social Security benefits for dependent children 18 years of age or older and with a degree of disability equal to or greater than 65%. Or of the mobility allowance and compensation for transportation expenses,
All of them will receive, before April 1, 2022 and in a single payment, the following amount. An amount equivalent to the difference between the pension they received in 2021 and the one they would have received in 2020. In the event of having applied a percentage increase to the 2020 amounts. This increase is equal to the average value of the year-on-year percentage increases in the CPI for the months of December 2020 to November 2021. Provided that the resulting average value is higher than 0.9%.
Likewise, and also as regards pensions, the RDL published extends until December 31, 2022, the compatibility of the retirement pension of professionals practicing medicine and nursing with the performance of their activity carried out for the management of the crisis situation caused by the Covid-19.
