In Spain, thousands of women who worked all their lives in family or dedicated to home have reached old age without their own pension. The Social Security System requires at least 15 years of contribution to access a Contributory pension and offers one Non -contributory pension For adults who have not quoted enough or, directly, they have not quoted, such as housewives. But in practice, many women from past generations did not know their rights or never claimed them. The result today is that they depend exclusively on their husbands’ pension.
It is Ana’s situation, which at 87 claims to be retired, but “without charging anything at all.” Her only source of income is the provision of her husband, former lawyer, who was always responsible for bringing the house accounts. “For pensions … I don’t, not a cent,” he explains in an interview for Newsstrobajo.
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Her source of income is her husband’s money
Ana worked with him in Barcelona’s office and, later, in Almería, but never regularized his employment situation or requested any pension once the retirement age was reached. “I’ve never gone to give it to me,” he admits. This administrative vacuum forces it to depend economically on your partnerdespite having collaborated for years in the family business.
Today she claims to live peacefully thanks to her husband’s pension. “He does know what he charges, but he charges for being a pensioner of law.
He even admits that they arrive to live because her husband knew how to save money for when they were older, and although she confesses to ignore how much her husband charges, she has access to the common account: “I have my card, if I want I go and take out, but I do not like to get, I like to put it,” he says. However, despite that comfort, your well -being continues to be conditioned by the income of another.
In addition, Ana observes with concern the situation of those who do not have that support:
“Life I see her face to people who have to look for life alone without anyone who contributes anything. I don’t know how they can get ahead, and more if they have older children or parents”
Aware that his generation assumed that agency as something natural, he launches advice to young people: “that they study a lot, that with a career in conditions they will look for them and, maybe, even for their grandparents, their parents, their own marriage,” he concludes.