According to INPS, 4.6 million pensioners receive less than a thousand euros a month.

In Italy, in 2024, nearly 4.6 million pensioners, 28.1% of the total, had a pension income of less than one thousand euros per month . According to the INPS Observatory on Pensioners' Records, the total amount received by the two weakest brackets of the pensioner population (up to 499.99 euros and between 500 and 999.99) was 8.8% of the total.

Among women, 34.5% have a pension income of less than €1,000 (nearly 2.89 million people), while among men, only 21.4% of the total are in the two lowest income brackets. There are 16.3 million pensioners in total, and of these, only 450,067 have pension incomes above €5,000 (2.8% of the total), for a total income of 10.2%.