Lola Prieto, 89 -year -old retiree, charges the social security widow’s pension for 50 years, when her husband died. Although he had a partner later, he did not want to marry him so as not to lose the right to this benefit that is life, that is, it lasts for a lifetime. Keep in mind that this pension requires a series of conditions and that 52% of the regulatory base is charged that would correspond to the cause of the pension, although It could rise to 70% with a series of conditions.
The program ‘And now Sonsoles’ of Antena3 has once again put on the table the debate on pensions, as already did in its day with the Active retirement Although, this time, it has been with the widow’s pension. After a brief introduction in which some of the requirements explain, one of the guests, Lola Prieto, wanted to tell her story. That it is neither more nor less than that of many other Spanish retirees.
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After inviting her to take a seat, and introduce the guests among which was the economic journalist José María Camarero, the protagonist began telling her story. He is charging a widow’s pension of 870 euros since she lost her husband, more than 50 years ago. “I charge that, the rest I don’t know, but I speak for me and I charge that.”
Now, he continues to do what he likes most, that one day was his work: the sewing, “I have worked hard, and I still do it. I do not short because I do not handle the scissors but I am in an association of elders in Fuenlabrada where I have given a sewing class for 11 years.”
“I had a partner but I didn’t marry not to stop charging the pension”
Remember, at a time of the interview, that he met a man and that he was his partner but that “I did not want to marry so as not to stop charging the little pension I had” and “for a signed role? No, I got married once.”
“He asked me many times marriage, and called me selfish and I told him that I will be but I had to take care of mine because between how little they gave me and what I seated could keep my children.”
He who was his partner “was divorced but we left it … I left it.” It was a complicated moment because she had just lost her eldest son. But I was clear: “My children, first of all.”
With the theme of the pension “I always had my feet on the ground” although he jokes “of course, if he had millions … he would have endured.”