In the fourth quarter of 2023:
▪ the average number of pensioners was 4981 thousand people, increasing by two thousand people as against the third quarter of 2023; the average number of state social insurance pensioners was 4606 thousand people, increasing by five thousand people as against the previous quarter;
▪ the average monthly pension (determined based on amounts for the pensions of all categories of pensioners –social insurance, invalidity, survivors etc.- paid by Pension Houses was RON2125, increasing by 0.4% as against the previous quarter;
▪ the average monthly state social insurance pension was RON2009, but the ratio between the average nominal net pension of state social insurance for old age with full contribution stage (without tax and without health insurance contribution) and the average net earnings was 47.5% (compared to 50.4% in the previous quarter);
▪ the real average pension index of state social insurance pensioners, calculated as the ratio between the net nominal pension index for calculating the real pension* and the consumer price index, was 99%.
In the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the fourth quarter of 2022:
• As compared to the fourth quarter of the previous year, the average number of pensioners decreased by 11 thousand people and the average number of state social insurance pensioners increased by 2 thousand people;
• Monthly average pension and average state monthly social insurance pension increased as compared to the same quarter of the previous year, by 13.9%, respectively 13.0%.
In the fourth quarter of 2023 compared with the third quarter of 2023:
• The average number of pensioners increased by two thousand people as against the previous quarter, while the average number of state social insurance pensioners increased by 5 thousand people;
• The average monthly pension and the average state monthly social insurance pension increased as against the previous quarter, by 0.4% and respectively by 0.1%.
In the fourth quarter of 2023, the total number of beneficiaries of the Emergency Government Ordinance no. 6/2009 regarding the minimum guaranteed social pension (social indemnity) was 1147.1 thousand people, of whom:
• 1038.2 thousand people from state social insurance system, representing 22.5% of the total pensioners of this category;
• 103.7 thousand people from the former system of farmers representing 65.0% of the total pensioners of system of farmers;
• 5.2 thousand people from military system, representing 2.5% of the total pensioners of this category.