Social Security pensions, as well as the other periodic economic benefits aimed at income maintenance, make up the backbone of the Catalan social protection system, as they absorb around 60% of its resources. These benefits ensure that recipients, whose sources of income have been lowered or disappeared for a variety of causes, can maintain a certain income level.
These statistics provide detailed information on each of the most important economic benefits. For each of them, information is provided on the evolution in the number of benefits, the yearly amount and the average benefit. Also included is a comparison with the corresponding magnitude for Spain as a whole.
Idescat also generates Social protection accounts, which reflect the evolution in the financing and expenditures of the Catalan social protection system. In these statistics, the information is organised according to the European standardisation criteria, which prevents the benefits from being distinguished by their administrative characteristics.
