The average monthly pension (determined taking into account the amounts for pensions of all categories of pensioners – social insurance, disability, survivor, etc. – paid by pension funds) was 1,661 lei, up 0.7% compared to the previous quarter, announces INS.
The average number of retirees was 5.085 million people, down by 14 thousand people compared to the previous quarter; the average number of state social insurance retirees was 4.657 million people, down by 8 thousand people compared to the previous quarter.
The average state social insurance pension was 1601 lei, and the ratio between the average nominal state social insurance pension for the age limit with full contribution period (excluding tax and social health insurance contribution) and the average net earnings was 53.2% (compared to 54.6% in the previous quarter), writes Mediafax.
index pensionand real averages compared to the previous quarter, calculated as the ratio between the nominal pension index for the calculation of the real pension and the consumer price index was 99.2%.
Compared to the second quarter of the previous year, the average number of retirees decreased by 47 thousand people, and that of the category belonging to state social insurance decreased by 19 thousand people. The average monthly pension and the average state social insurance pension increased compared to the same quarter of the previous year, by 15.7% and 16.0%, respectively.
The average number of pensioners decreased by 14,000 people compared to the previous quarter, and the average number of state social insurance retirees decreased by 8,000 people. The average monthly pension and the average state social insurance pension increased compared to the previous quarter, by 0.7% and 0.3%, respectively.
Social insurance retirees hold the majority share (99.98%) in the total number of retirees. State social insurance pensioners represent 91.6% of the total social insurance pensioners. By categories of pensions, the number of pensioners for old age was predominant (79.1%) among social insurance pensioners. Retirees included in the categories of pensions – early and partially early – accounted for 2.2%.
The total ratio between the average number of state social insurance retirees and that of employees was 9 to 10; this report presents significant variations in territorial profile, from only 4 pensioners to 10 employees in Ilfov county, to 16 pensioners to 10 employees in Teleorman county, 15 to 10 in Giurgiu county and 14 to 10 in Botoşani and Vaslui counties.
The average state social insurance pension varied with significant discrepancies in territorial profile, the gap between the minimum and maximum value being 850 lei (1272 lei in Botoṣani county, 1279 lei in Giurgiu county, 1298 lei in Vrancea county compared to 2122 lei in Hunedoara county, 2024 lei in Bucharest and 1889 lei in Brasov county).
The total number of beneficiaries of the provisions of GEO no. 6/2009 regarding the establishment of the minimum guaranteed social pension (currently – social allowance), in the second quarter of 2021, was 932.0 thousand persons, of which 792.6 thousand persons from the social insurance system state, representing 17.0% of the total number of pensioners in this category; 134.8 thousand persons among the pensioners from the former system for farmers, representing 57.9% of their total; 4.6 thousand people in the military system, representing 2.5% of the total in this category.
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