Without a quiet pension. More and more Poles are coming back to work

According to ZUS data, the number of pensioners is growing, who again enter into professional activity. At the end of last year, 872.6 thousand people with the right to a pension were earned in Poland. A year earlier, 854 thousand worked people with a pension granted, and in 2015 – 575 thousand

According to Sebastian Szczurek, ZUS regional spokesman in Opole, the number of pensioners is growing in the country who decide to return to professional activity. Women prevail among the extra money for benefits paid by ZUS.

At the turn of 2024 and 2025, the ladies, of whom there were 507 thousand, and constituted 58.1 percent predominated among retired pensioners. of all, earning seniors. The average age for women was 66.3 years, for men it was 69.2 years, and for both sexes – 67.5 years.

“The Opolskie Voivodeship is a region in which the least working pensioners live, because 2.3 percent of the whole country. It is natural, because we are a voivodship with the lowest number of inhabitants. The most professionally active seniors are in the Mazowieckie and Silesian voivodships. In Poland, for a thousand people with retirement, granted for the completion of the universal retirement age, on average 137 people continue to work” ZUS spokesman for Opole.

According to ZUS data, the inhabitants of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship returns to professional activity, where as many as 166 people become employees again. Pensioners in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, in which only 91 people take up the work of the labor market in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, in which only 91 people take up.

Among the working retirees subject to health insurance, the largest group are people working on an employment contract, they constitute 38.4 percent. of all working pensioners. Persons conducting non -agricultural activities constitute 29.6 percent, and persons working on a mandate contract 26 percent. In the case of working pensioners also subject to retirement and disability pension insurance, persons working on an employment contract definitely prevail – they constitute 59.2 percent, and persons working on a mandate contract – 35.1 percent.

On a national scale, the most pensioners work in the healthcare and social assistance industry – 16.2 percent work for these payers. pensioners. In all 16 voivodships, the participation of pensioners working in this section was the largest and oscillated around 14.4 percent. up to 20.5 percent In the case of women, the most pensioners work with payers from the Health Care and Social Assistance section – 23.9 percent. The participation of women working in this section was the largest in each of the provinces. The highest percentage of men worked with employers from the industrial processing sector – 14.8 percent. This section dominated in most voivodships, outside the Lublin and Mazowieckie provinces. (PAP)

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