The widow’s pension allows widows and widowers to collect a survivor’s pension from their deceased spouse together with their own pension or pension. They can choose a more favourable option to withdraw. This is 100% household pension and 15% of your own benefit or 100% of your own benefit and 15% of your household pension. The application for money is submitted to the Social Insurance Institution.
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Petition to increase the amount of widow’s pension limit. It would have increased more than twice.
The intent of the widow's pension is to supply financial support to those who lost their spouse. However, the combined benefit may not exceed 3 times the lowest pension. In 2025 it is PLN 1878.91 gross. This means that the maximum amount of support is PLN 5636.73 gross.
For many people, this threshold is besides low. That is why a citizen petition was received in the Sejm on 14 March. Her author has been a widow since 2019 and has reserved her anonymity. He demands that the widow's pension limit be increased to 3 times the average pension. In May 2025 it amounted to PLN 4189.54 gross. Then the widow's pension limit would increase to PLN 12 568.62 gross.
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It is worth noting that exceeding the widow’s pension limit presently results in a simplification in the amount of the benefit due by the amount of the excess, and in any cases even a full failure of the entitlement to the benefit. In specified a situation, the author of the petition, who exceeds the limit by PLN 200. That's why she decided to speak. Portal infor.pl recalled the content of the magazine.
I can't realize why seniors were treated like this. Why has specified a criterion been introduced for those surviving from a single pension? In my opinion, this is simply a non-ethical and discriminatory criterion for people like me, due to the fact that I can conclude that in my country it is not worth working for 40 years and withdrawing contributions, due to the fact that in my case it has exceeded the criterion by respective 100 zlotys. After all, my current pension is the consequence of the money I have accumulated in ZUS
- you can read it. The female admitted that she did not realize why there was no income criterion for the 800+ award and that it was introduced for widows and widowers. The letter went to the Committee on Petitions. The Bureau of Experts and Impact Assessment has already prepared an opinion. She doesn't support the author's idea. - The introduction of the proposed changes would importantly modify the construction of the alleged widow's pension, not responding to the presumption that this condition is due to the request to address support in the form of widow's pension to the most deprived people. The increase in the widow's pension limit is "automatically" higher benefits for widows and widowers, and this entails a higher cost for the state budget. For these reasons, BEOS recommended that the Sejm Commission reject the petition - she explained.
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