EITHER mail circulating on social networks presents very specific data on the average pension in Portugal in 2019 and 2020. It ensures that, in 2019, the average pension was 458 euros and that, in 2020, it would be 463 euros. The same publication ensures that these average values are below the poverty threshold in the respective years. This threshold would be 463 euros in 2019 and 475 euros in 2020, according to the same publication.
Consulting the official data on the page of the National Institute of Statistics, updated on October 1, 2021, it is possible to observe that the values presented in the publication do not coincide with the official ones. In 2019, the average value of Social Security pensions was 5,684 euros. Divided by 12 months, it represents an average of 473 euros, above the value claimed in the publication. In the case of 2020 the same thing happens. The average value of Social Security pensions was 5,811 euros, 484 euros per month.
Likewise, the value referred to as the poverty risk threshold does not coincide with the official publications. INE data shows that, in 2019, the poverty risk threshold stood at 6,480 euros per year, which corresponds to 540 euros per month. The same is true in 2020. The risk-of-poverty threshold was calculated at 6,653 euros, which corresponds to 554 euros per month.
conclusion
The data presented for the average pensions for 2019 and 2020 are wrong, as is the poverty risk threshold for the same years. Still, the final conclusion is correct. Indeed, in 2019 and 2020, the average pension in Portugal was below the poverty line.
Thus, according to the Observer classification system, this content is:
DECEIVER
In the Facebook classification system this content is:
PARTIALLY FALSE: the content claims are a mixture of accurate and inaccurate facts or the main claim is misleading or incomplete.
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Source: Observadora
