Revaluation of 2019 pensions: rate and calculation

As of January 1, 2019, the current pension revaluation index is confirmed at 1.1% – as indicated in the November 16th ministerial decree. Official newspaper 26 November) – both with regard to the 2018 adjustment (which confirms last year's estimate) and the forecasts (next year it will eventually be adjusted on the basis of real inflation). In other words, no adjustment will be necessary.

=> Retirement treatments: amounts and differences

indicators

The rebadessment of the controls is carried out gradually, a hooks of income (calculated only sure excess part):

• up to three times the minimum (around € 1539): revaluation of 1.1%
• three to five times the minimum (from 1539 to 2,000 565 euros): revaluation from 90% to 0.99%
• more than five times the minimum: revaluation from 75% to 0.825%.

The second new from 2019 the bands of equalization provided by the law 388/2000, while in recent years the mechanism has been regulated by the Law 147/2013.

calculation

So the rate is more practical the one applied in 2018, with the sole exception of treatments up to three times the minimum, for which revaluation was and remains 100%.

In theory, the new rate is disadvantageous between three and four times the minimumbecause the 2018 band was 95%. But now, 90% applies only to the part exceeding three times the minimum, while the revaluation at 100% is calculated up to 1539 euros.

example: pension of 1900 euros (between three and four times the minimum). The sum of about 17 euros corresponds to 100% of the share up to three times the minimum, to 3.5 euros of revaluation at 90% on the remaining part, so that the increase will be about 20.5 euros.

With the calculation 2018, then 95% on the total amount received, the increase would have been between 19 and 20 euros. In all other cases, the revaluation is also higher in terms of rates: in 2018, it was equal to 75% between four and five times the minimum, 50% between five and six times and 50% for the most advanced treatments .