Budget 2025 Allocates Massive Funds for Pensions

The proposed budget for 2025 includes a significant allocation of over 1.6 trillion pesos for pensions, accounting for 17.6% of the total budget. This budget highlights mandatory spending and financial obligations to states and municipalities, showcasing a fiscal strategy under the current administration.


Budget 2025 Allocates Massive Funds for Pensions

The 2025 Expenditure Budget Project foresees an expenditure on pensions of 1 trillion 637 billion 665 million 119 thousand 803 pesos, which will represent 17.6 percent of the total budget. The 2025 Economic Package, sent by the Executive to Congress, establishes that of the total public expenditure budget of 9 trillion 302 billion 15.8 million pesos, 82.6 percent corresponds to mandatory expenditure, with no possibility of reducing or modifying it.

Mandatory expenditure, which includes items such as pensions and retirements, reaches the figure of 7 trillion 684 billion 111.9 million pesos. In the public sector, the highest expenditure of 2 trillion 401.8 billion pesos corresponds to the allocations to states and municipalities of the country from federal revenues and contributions derived from the Fiscal Coordination Law. This is followed by the payment of public debt and debts from the previous fiscal year amounting to 1 trillion 434.2 billion pesos.

The third highest item of consumption in the public budget is regularizable expenditure on personal services, which includes ordinary salaries of public servants, social security expenditures and taxes inherent to those salaries, amounting to 1 trillion 149.2 billion pesos. Another 447 billion 310.7 million pesos will be allocated to current expenditure approved for the previous year, up to the equivalent of 20 percent on a monthly basis.

For payments of multi-year contractual obligations that involve additional costs, including public investment, 383 billion 801.5 million pesos will be spent. On the other hand, 203 billion 821.8 million pesos will be allocated to budget forecasts for the attention of the indigenous population, as established in the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States.

For forecasts for the Disaster Prevention Fund, the Disaster Fund, and the Fund to Assist the Rural Population affected by Climate Contingencies, 18 billion 914.3 million pesos will be allocated.