Making up with a limit: In Poland, you can earn some extra money, but not all seniors can do it without limit. In this case it is about so -called earlier pensioners. They are people who have decided retire before the age of 60 or 65. They cannot exceed the limits, because they are threatened with painful consequences from the site ZUS.
Additional earning ceiling: According to Business Insider, for this group of people it is important that their additional earnings he did not exceed 70 percent average monthly salary from the previous quarter. However, exceeding the ceiling of 130 percent average remuneration results in suspension of the pension of the pension by ZUS. The CSO said on 11.02 that in the fourth quarter of 2024 the average monthly salary was PLN 8,477.21 gross.
Up to PLN 900 less: This means that the thresholds for pensioners will amount to between March and the end of May PLN 5,934.10 and above this amount the Social Insurance Institution will reduce the benefit and PLN 11,020.40 – after exceeding this amount ZUS will suspend the payment of a pension. With an additional salary of PLN 6,500, the pension will decrease by over PLN 660. While with a salary of about PLN 8,000 ZUS will hit over PLN 900.
Valorization of pensions and disability pensions: It is known since Tuesday that based on the last CSO data on the average value of the value The indexation of pensions and disability pensions in 2025 will amount to 5.5 percent. From March 1, therefore, the minimum pension will increase from PLN 1,780.96 gross to PLN 1,878.91 gross – it is an increase of PLN 97.95 gross. This will also be the 13th pension, which at the same time is the basis for the calculation of “fourteen”. If the pensioner has received, for example, a benefit of PLN 3,000 gross, then after valorisation He can count on PLN 3,165 gross.
See also: Focus social security is taken for L4. More on this subject in the text “An avalanche of L4 control by ZUS. They suspended the benefits for hundreds of thousands of zlotys. That's how they work now”.
Source: Business Insider, ZUS