In Spain, there are minimal and maximum amounts for contributory pensions. In general terms, this amount will depend on three factors: retirement age (if we access early retirement, for example, We will suffer cuts in the pension), The years quoted to Social Security (the more years, the greater the percentage of the regulatory base that remains) and the regulatory base.
Now, the truth is that there are other underlying factors, such as salary and, yes, even the neighborhood where we live. This could be checked in a program of ‘The Intermediate’ of a last season, where the journalist Santi Villas was asking different people, of workers or accommodated neighborhoods, how much they were charging with his retirement pension. And the differences were abysmal.
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Starting with the pensioners of Barrios Obreros, the case of a pastry chef was very prominent who, after 45 years quoted, did not reach 900 euros of pension. Asked about the amount, and if it seemed good, he gave a very sharp answer: “This is working to die,” he denounced, while adding “if you can’t eat or live, what else does it give?”
This same pensioner, assured to the aforementioned program that it had been impossible for him to have a pension plan, explaining that he lived for rent and had nothing to complement his pension. Therefore, in contrast to the testimonies of the richest neighborhoods, he defended that it was important to go to the manifestations of pensioners, because “the more, the better.”
The most humble pensioners also assured that throughout their lives they had quoted less hours than those who had really worked, but that they could not do anything else: “And it was good, well. If not, to the street.” A woman, also of this group, explained how they had to juggle to reach marriage with 550 euros, since she was taking care of her sick husband: “Because we are older, we are sick and eat little, than if not …”, she lamented.
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On the opposite side, highlights the case of several pensioners who, residing in the rich neighborhoods, charged 2,200 euros of pension. “I was a manager in a company and Iotic from 18 to 65,” he confessed one of them, being very satisfied with it, which, he said, then it was “the maximum.”
This was also what a nurse with 48 years quoted was charged who, for almost his entire life, was also working by making guards in the private clinic. This also complemented his pension with the income of his 4 rented floors.
The same pension, of 2,200 euros, charged a retiree who, despite his retirement, was still active as a professor, professor of psychiatry, and scholarship by the World Health Organization. This, indicated that “fortunately” he could go without problems at the end of the month, although that did not mean that he was satisfied: “It could be higher for everything I have done.”
These testimonies, from the richest neighborhoods, not only differed in the amount with those of the workers’ neighborhoods in a matter of the amount since, unlike the previous ones, most of the accommodated neighborhoods did not manifest or saw it well to do it: “It is not a matter of complaining every day of all things,” said one of them.