The allowance amount is to be indexed on March 1 each year. In May, a parliamentary subcommittee supported amendments to the citizens' bill on increasing the social pension. Originally, the citizens' project assumed an increase in the pension from PLN 1,217.98 net to the amount minimum wage. 411 MPs voted for the amendment to the Act on social pensions, 10 were against and 7 abstained.
PLN 2,520 supplementary allowance. Applies to 130 thousand people
“Sejm passed the law on social pension! This is as much as PLN 2,520 of additional support for people unable to live independently. An important step towards social solidarity and real help for those who need it most,” she wrote on platform X Magdalena Łośko from PO.
MP Jacek Karnowski adds that the amendment to the Act applies “130,000 people particularly affected by fate.” “Huge applause for Iwona Hartwich – without you this success would not be possible! I am glad that I could help by collecting signatures for the civic project,” emphasized MP Małgorzata Tracz.
Additional cash benefit for people entitled to a social pension
The supplementary allowance is to be an additional cash benefit available to persons entitled to a social pension who are completely incapable of work and independent living. During wash parliamentary subcommittee, chairwoman of the Social Policy and Family Committee, Katarzyna Ueberhan from the Left, quoted by Polish Press Agencyexplained that the amount of PLN 2,520 “results from the difference between the amount of the minimum remuneration for work determined on the basis of separate regulations as of December 31, 2024 – PLN 4,300 – and the amount of the lowest pension for total incapacity for work.”