Pensions are not at risk: “The stable situation on the labor market translated into good financial condition of the FUS” – informs ZUS. The best indicator showing the Fund's ability to pay benefits is “covering expenditure with contributions from contributions and their derivatives”. In 2024 he reached 83.5 percent. ZUS forecasts show that in the coming years the condition of the FUS will still be stable.
Speeding from the Social Insurance Fund is mainly pensions and disability pensions: PLN 369 billion was allocated for this purpose. It's 90 percent The amounts of all benefits paid by the Social Insurance Fund, which amounted to PLN 406.2 billion. Expenses on pensions and pension were by 15.5 percent more than a year ago. “Expenses for other benefits paid from the Social Insurance Fund in 2024 amounted to PLN 37.2 billion and were 14.2 percent higher than the payments of sickness benefits incurred in 2023.
Pensions higher and higher: The average payment of the pension benefit was last year PLN 3,735.34. So she was higher than 14.2 percent paid in 2023 This happened mainly due to valorisation in the amount of 12.12 percent. A monthly, the FUS had to spend PLN 3.3 million more for the payment of pensions.
More and more pensioners: Interestingly, in 2024 it was paid on average per month 7.9 thousand pension benefits. It's about 69.1 thousand more than in 2023, as many as 6.3 thousand benefits were pensions, which were as much as 113.4 thousand. more than the previous year. Interestingly, the newly granted pension benefits in 2024 were 302.2 thousand. And their average height was at 3,722.04 PLN, which is slightly lower than the general average.
The number of foreigners is growing: “The number of insured persons at ZUS at the end of 2024 amounted to over 16.2 million (in retirement and disability insurance) and was 5.8 thousand greater than a year earlier” – notes ZUS. Especially foreigners came. Up to 7.3 percent Insured had citizenship other than Polish. It was exactly 1.2 million people, i.e. by as much as 5.8 percent more than at the end of 2023. First of all, they were Ukrainian citizens – “787.5 thousand, which constituted 66 percent of all people with citizenship other than Polish, registered in ZUS and 4.8 % of all insured.”
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Sources: ZUS