Raises pensions, extends transit discounts, protects vulnerable renters

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1. Contributory pensions go up 2.8% in 2025, and minimum pension amounts, non-contributory pensions and family benefits are updated. The maximum pension is set at €3,267.60 per month.
2. Public transit discounts are extended until June 30, 2025, and from July 1 to December 31, 2025 a new system applies: free passes for children under 14, a 50% discount for young people and 20% for everyone else, as long as the local administration co-funds another 20%.
3. On Renfe trains (Cercanías commuter rail, Media Distancia and AVANT) and on state-concession buses, new passes with discounts from 40% to 100% for children and young people are created for the second half of 2025.
4. Evictions and removals of economically vulnerable households with no housing alternative are suspended until December 31, 2025, and owners may request compensation until January 31, 2026.
5. A State-backed guarantee line is created to cover unpaid rent on primary homes for young people under 35 and vulnerable families.
6. Companies hit by the DANADANA Spanish acronym for a high-altitude isolated depression, the weather event that caused severe flooding in October 2024. floods will not have to count their 2024 and 2025 losses when calculating the legal ground for dissolution due to losses, until the close of the fiscal year starting in 2026.
7. The Valencian Community may exceptionally borrow in 2025 to cover the extraordinary expenses caused by the DANA floods of October and November 2024.
8. The guarantee of water and energy supply for vulnerable consumers and the extraordinary electricity bono socialBono social A discount on the electricity bill for households in vulnerable situations. discounts are kept through the end of 2025, gradually stepping down to the permanent scheme in 2026.

Who it affects

• Pensioners: Their pensions rise 2.8% in 2025 and minimum amounts are updated.
• Public transit users: Discounts on passes continue until June 30, 2025, followed by a new system with free child passes and youth discounts.
• Vulnerable tenants and occupants: They can request suspension of their eviction until December 31, 2025.
• Landlords: They can request compensation for the eviction suspension until January 31, 2026.
• Companies and self-employed people affected by the DANA floods and the La Palma eruption: Aid, Social Security payment deferrals and contribution exemptions are extended.

Words worth knowing

Real decreto-ley (royal decree-law)

A rule with the force of law that the Government can approve immediately in cases of urgent and extraordinary need; Congress must later validate it.

DANA

Spanish acronym for a high-altitude isolated depression, the weather event that caused severe flooding in October 2024.

Bono social

A discount on the electricity bill for households in vulnerable situations.

Causa de disolución por pérdidas

Legal ground requiring a company to dissolve when its net assets fall below half its share capital.

Expediente de regulación temporal de empleo (ERTE)

Mechanism that lets companies temporarily suspend or reduce work contracts while workers keep benefits.

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