Spain. Government And Social Agents Will Evaluate The Formula For Raising Pensions

The soap opera of the revaluation of pensions could close the chapter. The Government and the social partners will carry out, within the framework of social dialogue, a periodic evaluation every five years of the effects of the new formula for the revaluation of pensions with the CPI, to which the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations finally agreed. , José Luis Escrivá , for the maintenance of purchasing power.

This is reflected in the draft agreement on pensions sent yesterday to unions and employers to which Europa Press has had access . The aforementioned evaluation of the effects of the annual revaluation will be transferred to the Toledo Pact and “will contain a proposal for action if it is necessary to correct any deviation to preserve the maintenance of the purchasing power of pensions,” according to the text.

This additional rule, included in the reform of the new revaluation formula, has the reinforced objective of preserving the maintenance of the purchasing power of pensions and guaranteeing the economic sufficiency of pensioners.

The new revaluation system will guarantee the maintenance of purchasing power through the increase in pensions on January 1 of each year in accordance with the average inflation registered in the previous year. In addition, it is collected that in the case of negative inflation, pensions “will not suffer any reduction, leaving that year unchanged.”

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