Madrid (EFE) years of contributions with the recognized disability.
“We have approved an improvement for the lives of people with disabilities who are particularly vulnerable,” said the Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, at the press conference after the Council of Ministers that approved this improvement by royal decree.
The same regime will also apply to people who have more than one disabling pathology if, together, they exceed 45% of disability, when currently it is required that 45% be caused by a single pathology.
Escrivá has also highlighted that the determination of the pathologies that accredit the disability is simplified “considerably”, while the list of these pathologies can be modified through a ministerial order, “which will expedite the processes”.
Regulated the mixed formula of incentives for delayed retirement
In another royal decree approved this Tuesday, the Government has established the possibility that voluntary delayed retirement allows charging a percentage increase in the pension for each year of delay, but also a single payment.
This mixed formula was already provided for in the pension reform agreed with the social agents in July 2021, but it had not been regulated until now.
From 2022, Escrivá explained, a lump sum (the so-called “check”) can be collected or alternatively a percentage of 4% more in the pension for each year of delay in accessing retirement.
Now it will also be possible to opt for this new formula, so that those who delay their retirement between 2 and 10 years will simultaneously receive a 2% increase in their pension for each year they delay and a single payment equivalent to half of what would correspond to them if opt for the current single payment formula.
In this way, if retirement is delayed 11 years or more, the incentive will be a single payment applied to 5 years of the delayed period and a 2% increase in the pension for each year of delay.
Escrivá recalled that in 2022 -the first year of application- delayed retirement has increased by 5.4%, while in the first quarter of 2023 it has increased by 7.8%.
So far in 2023, 1,148 new pensioners have opted for the single payment, whose average amount is 13,100 euros, the Ministry of Social Security has detailed in a statement.
17% of pensions have benefited from some type of supplement for delay, compared to 12% in the same period of 2022.