(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 22 - The pensions in force as of 1 January 2023 are 17,718,685, 77.2% of which are social security and 22.8% are welfare.
This can be read in the Observatory on INPS pensions excluding the pensions of public employees according to which the total annual amount is equal to 231.0 billion euros, of which 206.6 billion supported by social security management and 24.4 billion by welfare ones.
In 2022, 1,350,222 pensions were paid, 46.5% of which were of a welfare nature.
In the distribution of pensions by monthly amount, a strong concentration in the lower classes is observed: 55.8% of pensions have an amount of less than 750 euros.
The figure refers to individual pensions (and not to the average amount of per-retiree income).
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