Pensions: 901,000 in 2025, with an average monthly amount of 1,213 euros

The total number of pensions commencing in 2025 stood at 901,448, with an average monthly amount at the start of the pension of 1,213 euros. There were 665,689 pensions commencing in the first nine months of 2026, with an average amount of 1,297 euros. These figures relate to old-age, early retirement, disability and survivors’ pensions from the schemes in question. They also include social allowances. This is reported by INPS in the Observatory on the Monitoring of Retirement Flows, relating to pensions commencing in 2025 and in the first nine months of 2026, with data as at 2 October 2026.

The Institute clarifies that “pensions commencing in 2025 also include those paid out after 2025 (up to 2 October 2026), provided they commence in 2025. Pensions commencing in the first nine months of 2026, on the other hand, include only those paid out by 2 October with a commencement date in September. Consequently, the data relating to pensions commencing in 2025 and 2026 are not comparable with one another, as the figures for 2026 are still subject to change following the future award of pensions commencing before 2 October 2026. Any differences in the volume of pensions paid out may therefore reflect variations in the time taken to finalise administrative procedures and do not necessarily indicate changes in the underlying pension trends.”

“As regards the individual categories, the pensions commencing in 2025 were: 287,253 old-age pensions, 214,369 early retirement pensions, 65,334 disability pensions and 234,863 survivors’ pensions. In the first nine months of 2026, the figures were: 227,906 old-age pensions, 159,344 early retirement pensions, 39,032 disability pensions and 162,009 survivors’ pensions”.

Analysing the individual schemes, “the FPLD (Pension Fund for Employees) recorded 357,967 pensions in 2025 and 258,799 in the first nine months of 2026; followed by the civil servants’ scheme with 126,997 and 97,336 respectively, craftspeople (89,169 and 64,922), traders (79,213 and 58,240), special funds (64,497 and 48,800), quasi-subordinate workers (51,085 and 37,679) and farmers, tenant farmers and sharecroppers (32,891 and 22,515). There were 99,629 social security payments in 2025 and 77,398 in the first nine months of 2026”.