This is what next year's indexation of pensions will look like

The Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers adopted a project of valorisation of next year's pensions – said the Secretary of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers Mariusz Skowroński.

“I would like to kindly inform you that the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers, after examining the case in a circulation mode, adopted on July 22, 2025 the draft ordinance of the Council of Ministers regarding the amount of increase in the index of retirement and disability pensions in 2026.” Skowroński said.

The cost of valorisation of pensions in 2026. The indicator proposed in the regulation at 4.9 percent. Estimated at approx. PLN 22 billion.

Trade unions postulated that this indicator should be not less than the average annual price indicator of goods and services in 2025, increased by at least 50 percent. In turn, the real increase in the average remuneration for work in 2025. In turn, the proposals of the employers' website were closer to the government's proposals.

During the July consultation of the Social Dialogue Council, an agreement was not developed in this respect.

Pursuant to the provisions, if the RDS does not agree on the proposal to increase the valorisation indicator within 21 days of the completion of the negotiations, taking into account the information about the forecast macroeconomic quantities, including the size of the inflation indicator, which is the basis for the development of the draft budget act for the following year, by way of a regulation, the decision is made by the Council of Ministers.

Retirement and disability benefits paid by ZUS are valorized every year. Pursuant to the Act on pensions and disability pensions, valorisation is based on the average annual price indicator of consumer goods and services for pensioners households, which in 2024 amounted to 103.6 percent, and the real increase in the average salary, which reached 9.5 percent.

From March 1, 2025, the lowest pension, pension due to total incapacity for work, survivors' pension and social pension are PLN 1878.91. In turn, the lowest pension due to partial incapacity for work is PLN 1409.18. (PAP Biznes)

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