ZUS flooded with conclusions by seniors
Until 749 thousand Applications for a widow's pension were submitted by seniors until May 6, 2025. Recently 21 April ZUS He reported that 707 thousand Applications for this benefit have been sent to the plant since the beginning of the year. This means that as many as 40,000 arrived in just over two weeks. applications. However, this is still much less than in January, when the benefit started. In the first month of this year, 308.8 thous. people. In the following months this number was falling. In February it was 180.3 thousand, in March 159.1 thousand, in April 100.5 thousand applications. Zbigniew Derdziuk, president of ZUS, expects that in total about 850,000 will go to offices all over Poland. applications.
KRUS also bends with the conclusions
The Agricultural Social Insurance Fund (KRUS) also announced that aboutD The beginning of the year to the end of April adopted 96,954 applications. Most, as much as 86 percent all applications were made by women. The director of the KRUS Bureau office Iwona Kaszuba announced that considering these applications would start in May.
When is the payment of benefits?
You should hurry, because for this benefit to be paid from July, The application must be submitted by the end of June at the latest. So there are less than two months. Let us remind you that the widow's pension at the initial stage will be 15 percent. own benefits and the amount of the entire survivor's pension after the deceased spouse. The survivor's pension is 85 percent. benefits that would be entitled to a deceased person or 15 percent. established for the widow or widower of a survivor's pension and 100 percent. your own benefit, e.g. a pension.
Who is the widow's pension?
People who are in retirement age have the right to benefit, not earlier than five years before the start of the retirement age, had co -ownership with the deceased spouse and did not make another marriage. Importantly, the widow pension may not exceed three times the lowest pension, i.e. PLN 5,636.73 gross. In the event that the sum of benefits in the intersection exceeds this amount, the benefit will be reduced by the value of exceeding. If the benefit has already been received so far exceeds the indicated amount, the right to a widow is not entitled.
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