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Topic 08 · Pensions and social spending

How is pension spending split between the public system and special regimes?

The categories of service pensions, their yearly cost and the ratio of pensioners to active contributors, based on official data.

Analyses

6 min · updated 15 October 2026The average pension of a former soldier, police officer or SRI officer is over 2.3 times the public-system average, and comes from a different budgetSince 2016, state military pensions have no longer been paid from the social insurance budget but directly from the budgets of MApN, MAI and SRI. The pension system deficit already exceeded, in 2025, the level the Fiscal Council was projecting only for 2028.