The Social Security has paid 10,446,888 pensions to about 9.5 million people in the February payroll, which amounts to 14,272.5 million euros.
In February, 6.7 million retirement pensions and 2.3 million widow's pensions from the Social Security System have been paid, in addition to more than one million permanent disability pensions, more than 335,000 orphanhood pensions, and 46,600 in favor of relatives.
The pension average of the system of the Social Security is of 1.366,2 euros this month, a 4,5% more than in the same month of the previous year. This average includes the amount of the different types of pension (retirement, permanent disability, widowhood, orphanhood and in favor of relatives).
The average retirement pension, received by more than two-thirds of the total number of pensioners (6.6 million people), stands at 1,566.8 euros per month, 4.4% more than in February 2025.
By regimes, the amount of the average retirement pension from the General Regime is 1,727.2 euros per month, while in the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers it is 1,056.5 euros. In Coal Mining, the amount of the average pension is 2,996 euros, and 1,731.1 euros in the Sea Regime. The monthly amount of new retirement registrations in the system amounted to 1,865.8 euros on average, according to the latest available data, which are from January.
As for the average widow's pension, in February it reached 972.8 euros per month.
Payroll and pensions by class
The monthly payroll of contributory pensions of the Social Security reached 14,272.5 million euros. Three quarters of the contributory pension payroll correspond to retirement pensions, as is usual. Specifically, these pensions represent 73.2% of the payroll, 10,451.3 million euros.
To pensions of widowhood have been allocated 2,275.8 million euros, while the payroll for benefits for permanent disability amounts to 1,322.9 million; that of orphanhood, to 184.4 million euros and that of the benefits in favor of family members, to 38.2 million.
The January data consolidate the trend of sustained growth of delayed retirements while the number of early ones decreases.
Throughout 2025, there were registered 375.324 new registrations for retirement pensions, of which less than 30% were early retirements (27,9%), which is 12,1 percentage points less than in 2019, before the reforms implemented, when they represented 40% of new retirements. In total, there were registered 104.655 early retirements. The 72,1% of new retirees accessed at ordinary age (270.622).
In this same period, the 10.9% of new retirements corresponded to the modality of delayed retirement, compared to 4.8% they represented in 2019. These are 40,952 new retirements of this type, while in 2019 they barely reached 14,000. As a result of the voluntary delay in the moment of retirement and the lesser advancement, the average age of access to retirement stands at 65.3 years, when in 2019 it was 64.4. It should be remembered that in 2022 new incentives for delaying access to retirement came into force and the legal framework for early retirement was reconfigured.
The average resolution time for files in January (latest available data) was 17.82 days in the case of the retirement pension and 14.85 days in the case of widow's pensions. It should be noted that the maximum resolution period in these procedures, according to RD 286/2003 of March 7 and RD 1192/2021, of August 3, is 90 days for both retirement benefits and widow's benefits.
With complement for the reduction of the gender gap
In February, 1,367,995 pensions have the complement for the reduction of the gender gap, of which 77.6% of their holders are women (1,061,238). The average monthly amount of this complement in the pension is 76.95 euros. Of the total complemented pensions, 24.3% correspond to pensioners with one child (331,812); 49.5% to beneficiaries with two children (676,549); close to 17.8% receive it with three children (243,259), and for four children, 8.5% (116,372).
This supplement, in force since February 2021, consists of a fixed amount of 33.20 euros per month per child, after the revaluation applied in 2024. The application must be made at the time the pension is requested.
Passive Classes
On the other hand, the monthly payroll of Passive Classes pensions amounted to 1,758.3 million euros in the month of January (latest available data). This figure represents an increase of 98.8 million euros compared to that of the previous year, 6% more.
The number of pensions in force was 736,793, which are 14,412 pensions more than in the same month of the previous year (2% annual variation). This type of pension is received by 707,230 pensioners.
The State Passive Classes Regime fundamentally includes military personnel and civil personnel of the General State Administration, of the Administration of Justice, of the General Courts and of other constitutional or state bodies, as well as officials transferred to the autonomous communities.
