The Government of Spain and the Canary Executive have reached an agreement on how to apply the supplement that the community grants to recipients of non-contributory pensions without it ending up harming beneficiaries, in case the limits set by the State are exceeded.
As reported in a statement by the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, this agreement provides a agreed-upon solution to the differences that the two administrations have maintained until now in this regard, without the need for the Constitutional Court to resolve them.
Through the regional budget law of 2026, the Government of the Canary Islands committed to paying 400 euros in two installments (May and November) to citizens residing in the islands who are receiving a non-contributory pension.
However, the Government of Spain warned that, in certain cases, the sum of this supplement with the pension could exceed the income limits set for these cases by the General State Budget Law, which would oblige the beneficiary to renounce the entire supplement.
The agreement of interpretation now shared by the two administrations offers "legal certainty, as proposed by the State, to beneficiaries of non-contributory pensions in the Canary Islands when receiving the maximum possible amount of the complementary pension activated by the insular Government," adds the Ministry of Territorial Policy.
"Without this agreement, the question could arise that it would not be guaranteed that they would receive it if, with the sum of both, it exceeded the maximum annual cap included in the General State Budgets," it details.
Minister Torres highlights that this agreement "is the result of permanent dialogue and the will of the Government of Spain to always extend a hand, and it provides a solution with guarantees to thousands of pensioners."
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