• Social Security: Pedro Sánchez applies the 0.9% rise to pensions but keeps the salary of civil servants frozen
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Pensioners and public workers experienced a significant gain in purchasing power during the past year. So much so that the rise in benefits paid by Social Security doubled inflation, while the salary improvement of officials was more than triple .

Specifically, the CPI closed December at 0.8% , as evidenced by the data published this week by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), a figure that in turn leaves the average inflation of last year at 0, 7% Public pensions, on the other hand, rose 1.6% as a result of the agreement signed by the Government of Mariano Rajoy and the PNV in exchange for the Basque Nationalist Party supporting the General State Budget of 2018.

And public salaries, also under the multiannual pact that Cristóbal Montoro closed with the union representatives of the officials, registered an increase of between 2.5% and 2.75% , which in any case is more than triple the increase in the cost of living.

This improvement, especially in the case of public workers, adds to the one they also experienced in 2018 and which they will surely register in the current year. Thus, two years ago pensions rose 1.6% under the same agreement between PP and PNV, to which Pedro Sánchez subsequently added a tenth to equal 1.7% to which the average inflation rose. The rebound in public salaries was somewhat higher, specifically up to 1.95% .

By 2020, retirees are guaranteed an improvement of 0.9%, which is the average inflation estimated by the Government for the year as a whole. But in case of an upward deviation from the CPI, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has already guaranteed that a single and additional payment would be made in April 2021.

As for officials, their salaries will advance a minimum of 2%, which will go up to 2.3% if the so-called additional funds are applied, and even further if the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) records growth figures that Right now they seem hardly achievable or if the government meets the deficit, something that does not seem feasible either. In any case, the already guaranteed rise easily exceeds inflation. But for that, it is true, the Government will have to approve this improvement, something that unlike pensions has not yet been made.

Sanchez, in the council of ministers last Tuesday, did not explain the reason why he has not yet approved the climb already agreed . Union sources point out that behind this decision could be the director of the Presidency Cabinet, Iván Redondo, and his strategy of making announcements in a phased manner. "Giving pills," they point out.

CSIF will adopt "pressure measures" if the Government does not approve in January the salary increase to officials

CSIF gives term to the new Government of Spain (PSOE-United We Can) until the end of January to approve in the Council of Ministers the salary increase of 2% agreed corresponding to 2020 for public officials and employees and, if not, will take " the appropriate pressure measures, "reports Europa Press.

This was warned this Thursday in Santander the president of the union, Miguel Borra, after seeing that the salary increase has not been addressed in the first Council of Ministers of the new Executive held two days ago, in which the revaluation of 0 was approved, 9% of pensions.

Borra said that the Government of Spain has, in principle, three councils of ministers to approve this salary increase for public employees before the end of January, one of them in the extraordinary session scheduled for this Friday, January 17. He also noted that it could be done at the Council of Ministers that is expected to be held next Tuesday, January 21, and another the following week.

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