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The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations proposes "to gradually carry out the comprehensive reformulation of death and survival benefits, especially widowhood benefits" through the Toledo Pact. With the aim of "adapting to the new social and family realities, as well as to the socioeconomic circumstances of the beneficiaries", it intends to introduce an income test to access this benefit that takes into account the financial situation of the family unit, and other criteria such as age and children.

It is intended to cut compatibility, in order to restrict in some way this type of benefit and "limit it to those who really need it." Along the same lines, it advocates that protection be concentrated on people aged 65 or over for whom the pension is their main or only source of income, raising the percentage of the regulatory base used to calculate a little to this group.

your benefit, currently 60%, and raise it to 65-70%. We will never agree with Minister Escrivá's proposal because of what it means to attack a part of the population that has been left in economic distress in most cases.

But the worst thing is that they intend to REMOVE these pensions from the contributory system (dependent on the SS) and convert them into assistance (dependent on the General State Budget). This proposal to modify the nature of pensions for widows, orphans and in favor of relatives (death and survival benefits), supposes breaking the integrity of the public pension system, opening the way to the reduction of these pensions by detaching them from the base of contribution that is its origin and being able to be linked, later, to the IPREM that has been practically stagnant for 10 years, at the same time that they would enter the field of transferable to the Autonomous Communities, like other assistance. Widowhood pensions, for the most part and currently, are for women in more than 90%, who access the pension after the age of 70 and 70% of these pensioners have the pension itself as the only economic resource, although they have On the way to changing some of these parameters due to the incorporation, many years ago, of women into paid work. This financing from the contributions of the PGE is a purely economic measure, and its objective is to leave a surplus per year in the SS budgets, adjustable according to the degree of execution of income and expenses.

But, as we have proposed on many other occasions from the pension movements, that surplus would be achieved much more easily by transferring the really improper expenses (salaries and ministerial fixed expenses, bonuses and subsidies for hiring, maternity and paternity benefits, minimum supplements, universal aid for health or social services, etc.) to the General State Budgets, and compensating the deficits with current transfers, as contemplated in art.

109 of the TRLGSS. In other words: Social Security would have a surplus if it only had to pay the contributory benefits whose right has been generated by social contributions including widowhood and orphanhood, without eliminating a right like that for those who are left in difficult situations.  Yayoflautas Cartagena

Source: Yayoflautas Cartagena