The double foral benefit: the Basques benefit from the taxes of the rest of the country on their pensions without contributing their own

• The PNV justifies its initial support for Sánchez's budgets by managing to extend the quota agreed with Montoro

A very important part of the

bill is already paid openly with

.

In the 2023 General State Budget, without going any further, an item of just

was allocated from the taxes paid by all Spaniards.

All, except the Basques and neither the Navarrese who do comply with their tax obligations with their respective Provincial Treasuries, but who do

.

Because?

Because not even in the update of the

Basque quota nor in the Navarrese agreement has this situation been taken into account.

The result, therefore, is that both the Basque and Navarrese governments, and their respective citizens, obtain a

.

Another one, because the quota and the agreement are already beneficial for them.

Besides,

and contributions in the form of contributions do not reach, at all, to cover these benefits.

"They simply opted for a renewal," they explain in the

when questioned about this situation.

Last February, Congress approved the

for a value of

which effectively represents a figure very similar to that of the previous one.

He did it with the votes of PSOE, PNV and also PP, in what can be understood as a clear

and in case the votes of the formation

are necessary.

Ciudadanos and Vox, for their part, voted against.

And with this step, it was certified that the Basque pensioners, like the Navarrese, will benefit from the taxes of the rest of the country without contributing their own to that global bill.

The figure that they should contribute, moreover, is not reduced.

If, for example, it is assumed that the Basque Country represents 6% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it is crossed with that invoice of more than 38,000 euros, the result is that

just to pay their pensions.

That is, that the pension bill would be higher than the agreement as a whole and would blow up the quota itself and the overfinancing that the foral territories receive.

In it

They are aware that this unequal distribution of the proceeds occurs and, also, that the transfers that this body receives from the General State Administration are higher each year, but even so

and they pass the ball to the ministry of María Jesús Montero.

"For inquiries regarding quotas and General State Budgets,

", settle sources from the portfolio of José Luis Escrivá, who do not enter to assess whether this effect is fair for the rest of the territories.

Furthermore, the circumstance occurs that the

is the community of Spain that has a

, of

according to the last payroll in February, about 300 euros more than the country's average of 1,314 euros.

The

is in fourth position, only behind the Principality of Asturias and the Community of Madrid, with an average pension of

This is the average expenditure allocated to all the contributory pensions paid by Social Security -permanent disability, retirement, widowhood, orphanhood and in favor of relatives-, but if only the expenditure on

which account for the bulk of Social Security spending, there are even sharper differences by community.

The

they are still the ones who charge a

, while the

enter

per month, both above the

Transfers grow 147% since 2019

In the field of Social Security, the territorial financing system by its very definition has meant that Basque and Navarrese pensioners have benefited from the rest of the country's taxpayers since the

to compensate the deficit of that administration;

The problem is that the contribution made by taxes to the pension system has been growing year after year.

Of the

that the General State Administration contributed to Social Security in

, has been passed to

, more than double.

In that year, in which

occupied by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, this transfer was made because the Social Security Reserve Fund -known as

had remained below the minimum, with only

compared to the 63,000 million that came to have accumulated in 2012.

Valerio did not want to go down in history as

so he decided to leave that symbolic remainder of 2,000 million - in a single month Social Security needs almost 12,000 million to pay pensions - and requested a loan from the State of 15,600 million that year.

The piggy bank has not been touched since then

-according to the latest report, of December 31, 2021, it continues to maintain 2,138 million-, but nevertheless the transfers from the State to Social Security have been increasing, in fact the Social Security debt with the State already exceeded at the end of 2022 the 106,000 million euros.

In this exercise, that virtual debt will grow even more, since the transfers will be

than those of 2022.

Even so, for this financial year, it is expected that the 'pension piggy bank' will fill up slightly again, since the

that the Government is expected to collect from the new contribution derived from the

, approved as part of the pension reform, will go to this Fund.

That amount will be insufficient to cover the deficit of the system, hence a transfer of 38,772 million has already been budgeted, of which some 15,500, according to Funcas, are justified because the contributions are not enough to finance the contributory benefits.

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