36,813 pensioners receive a pension that is less than €154 a week. 21,868 (59.4%) of these pensioners are women, while men total 14,945.

Replying to a parliamentary question put by Godfrey Farrugia (PL), family and social solidarity minister Michael Farrugia said that the pension of 41.6% of the 88,500 Maltese pensioners is less than €620 every four weeks.

The minister pointed out that these are individual pensioners and there are cases where the other spouse’s weekly pension is more than €154.

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