Update 2025
In accordance with Royal Decree 316/2025 of 15 April on the limitation of the initial amount of public pensions and the revaluation of pensions in the social security system, pensions of State Passive Classes and other public social benefits for the financial year 2025, the updating of pensions paid by Passive Classes shall apply to the monthly amount of the pension in question as at 31 December 2024, once the deviation from the Consumer Price Index has been applied, reaching an updating of 2.8 per cent.
Pensions not updated during the year 2025
In application of the provisions of Royal Decree 316/2025 of 15 April on the limitation of the initial amount of public pensions and the revaluation of pensions in the social security system, pensions of State Passive Classes and other public social benefits for the financial year 2025, the following pensions of Passive Classes shall not be increased:
- The recognizeds in favour of State Walkers and caused prior to 1 January 1985, with the exception of those whose pensioner only received this pension because of that condition.
- The pensions of the Mutual Societies included in the Special Fund of the General Mutual Society of Civil Servants of the State which, as of 31 December 2024, had already reached the amounts corresponding to 31 December 1073.
Rules for the updating of Passive Class pensions
The application of the increase shall conform to the following rules:
- It shall apply to pensions arising prior to 1 January 2025 in respect of the full monthly amount received or would have been received by the holder on 31 December 2024.
- The amount of the pension or of all the pensions paid out of the Passive Classes credit received by the same holder, once the increase due to each of them has been applied, shall be limited to the amount of 45,695.16 euros annual instalments, which includes both the amount of ordinary monthly payments and the amount of extraordinary payments that may correspond.
In widows ' pensions, increases for children shall not, in any case, be taken into account for the purposes of the application of the upper limit of entitlement set out in the preceding paragraph.
Procedure for updating
The updating of Passive Class pensions by 2025 will be carried out ex officio, with economic effects of 1 January 2025, by the General Directorate of Social Security Management.
This will be done on the basis of the data available for each pension holder as of 31 December 2024.
The updating shall be provisional until the Administration has ascertained the appropriateness of the receipt of its amount, in accordance with the other perceptions of the holder of a pension or pensions and the rules on concurrence and incompatibility applicable in each case.
If the final increase in the revaluation previously carried out provides evidence that excessive amounts have been perceived, the pensioner will be obliged to reinstate the unduly perceived. Without prejudice to the foregoing, in the event that the person concerned has committed in his statement falsehood or omission of data, the corresponding responsibilities that he may have incurred may be required of him.
Extraordinary pensions for acts of terrorism
In accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 316/2025 of 15 April on the limitation of the initial amount of public pensions and the revaluation of pensions in the Social Security system, pensions of State Passive Classes and other public social benefits for the financial year 2025, extraordinary pensions of Passive Classes arising from terrorist acts are exempt from the exclusionary or limiting rules provided for in the regulations for updating public pensions.
In the event that, together with any of the pensions referred to in the preceding paragraph, a particular person would be entitled to receive, by 31 December 2024, any one or more other public pensions, the exclusionary or limiting rules cited above shall apply in respect of the latter.