Mexico Pension Spending under Bienestar Programs, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico City): Mexico’s Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) reported that one of every four pesos was used to pay contributory pensions, including the universal income for adults over 65 and women over 60.
SHCP reports indicated that contributory pensions paid by the IMSS, Pemex, CFE and ISSSTE totaled 1,261,276.9 million pesos in September, a real annual increase of five percent.
Adding the universal pension for adults over 65, the amount reached 438,829.7 million pesos, a 6.6 percent annual increase compared with the cumulative total through September of last year.
The Mujeres Bienestar program, which serves women between 60 and 64 years old, paid 42,278.1 million pesos, a real increase of 204.1 percent compared with the first nine months of 2025.
Pension payments linked to population aging in 2026 total 1,742,384.7 million pesos, nearly 25 percent of public spending executed by the federal public administration through September.
