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Also due to the waning of the Quota 100 effect and the arrival of Quota 103, now in a “penalised” version, the race for retirement is slowing down significantly, especially in the public sector. In the first three months of 2024, the INPS paid 187,223 new pensions, with a decrease of 16.16% compared to the same period of 2023. And the advance payments were 56,660, equal to approximately 30% of the total. This is what emerges from the organisation’s Observatory on the monitoring of retirement flows. The average amount of new pensions is 1,225 euros, with large fluctuations between the various categories: 888 euros on average for old-age benefits and 2,017 euros for advanced ones, linked to a higher number of contributions. The “gender pension gap” remains marked. Overall, the new treatments provided to women are worth on average 999 euros compared to 1,473 euros for men: 32% less. The INPS data also highlights that, after the further restrictions introduced by the latest budget law, access to the women’s option has collapsed: retirements were just 1,276 while in the whole of 2023 they had reached 11,514.
Almost 73 thousand old age pensions and 56,660 “early” ones
The INPS informs that the total pensions starting in 2023 is 819,236, for an average monthly amount starting from 1,206 euros. The checks paid starting from the first quarter of 2024 were 187,223. In particular, in the first three months of this year, 72,829 old-age pensions, 56,660 early pensions, 8,756 disability pensions and 48,978 to survivors were paid.
In the public sector, over half of the treatments are anticipated
The monitoring highlights that the new pensions paid with effect from January to March 2024 are 86,031 for private sector employees (average monthly amount of 1,446 euros) and 57,332 for all self-employed workers, i.e. direct farmers, artisans and traders (867 euros on average per month). The benefits paid to public employees were 18,905 for an average amount of 2,268 euros, thanks above all to the weight of early pensions which absorb more than half of the checks paid (10,287 with an average amount of 2,483 euros). In the same period, 9,752 treatments were provided to para-subordinate workers (221 euros on average per month).
The decline in retirements with the peak in Pa
The only category of pensions growing in the first quarter is that of social allowances (24,955 allowances for an average amount of 497 per month). The management where the most significant drop in access to retirement was recorded was that of public employees: the payments paid fell from 29,059 to 18,905 (-34.94%) with a slowdown found for old-age allowances, for those in advance and especially for disabled people (from 1,192 to 225 pensions) and survivors (from 11,076 to 4,602). For the 10,287 advance payments provided in the public sector (down 16.3% on the same period in 2023), the average age of access to pension rises to 61.8 years.
