Retirees

"An odyssey, impossible mission": this is what withdrawing cash at a bank in Havana has become

Three years of banking services and over 31,000 retirees from Guantánamo are still waiting in line at the banks

Cuba extends pension payments through small and medium-sized enterprises

Blind and alone in Holguín: elderly man survives amidst hunger, blackouts, and misery

Bandec in Guantánamo brings in only about a third of the money it needs each day

Urgent help is requested for a 75-year-old woman who cares for her daughter with cerebral palsy alone in Camagüey

Paying to receive: retirees and 'buquenques' in Santiago de Cuba

Cuban expelotero will facilitate the collection of pensions for sports legends in Sancti Spíritus from his business

"I never thought it would be like this": Cuban elders speak about their old age

Roberto Perdomo receives over $1,500 after revealing his difficult situation in Cuba: Solidarity came quickly

The government in Guantánamo aims to expedite payments to retirees by shifting them from banks to the private sector

Regime veterans evoke Fidel Castro in Camagüey among faces marked by precariousness and neglect

They gift a thousand pesos to a Cuban grandfather who takes his grandchildren to school by bicycle

The harsh reality of retired seniors in Cuba: "I didn't even have enough to buy today's rice."

"40 years of work in a single liter of oil": This is what a grandfather's pension in Cuba amounts to

Cuban elderly woman makes a harsh confession: "Yesterday I didn't eat, and today I'm going for the same."

An elderly man is found dead on a street in Santiago de Cuba

"Will I be able to enjoy the increase?": Cuban retirees have been waiting for months for their new pensions

Ten families receive bread and food modules for free from a private project in Santa Clara

"Something should change": Cuban grandparents continue to line up to cash their checks

Mipyme offers soup to retirees while they wait to collect their benefits at the bank in Santiago de Cuba

176 measures and a million-dollar gap: Monreal highlights the regime's inability to care for the most vulnerable

The harsh reality of a retiree in Cuba: Working at 77 years old to be able to eat

A private bar in Amancio has become a payment point for pensions due to the banking system's inability in Las Tunas

"That's chaotic": retirees and citizens face another endless line in front of a bank in Guantánamo

Without cash in the banks, 113 private businesses are paying pensions to retirees in Guantánamo

A Community Food Home managed by a private business is inaugurated in Ciego de Ávila

Food, drinks, and chairs: the "solution" to the wait for retirees to receive their pensions in Santiago de Cuba

Cuban bank claims it is increasing the distribution of new banknotes, and users respond: "Very nice, but there is no cash."

Retirees in Holguín are once again left without their payments: "A sea of desperate people" in front of the banks

Banco Popular de Ahorro has been closed for days in Sierra de Cubitas, leaving the elderly unable to withdraw their money

Bandec in Guantánamo promises loans and other benefits to private SMEs that pay pensions to retirees

Roberto Perdomo reveals why he doesn't leave Cuba: "My pension isn't enough for me to visit my grandson."

Inspectors fine an entrepreneur and his retired worker 48,000 pesos as hunger intensifies in Cuba

Economist questions what will happen to pension payments if the Mipyme runs out of cash

Cuban bank admits that retirees must wake up early to get cash: "Getting up very early is a challenge."

These are the AARP's tips for stretching retirees' money in the United States

Elías Amor warns about risks for Mipymes that pay pensions in Cuba

Economist Elías Amor defines "the reality" behind the lines at Cuban banks

Elías Amor reacts to Cuban woman who reports long lines of retirees at banks unable to collect their pension

"Let's hope that this path is not like utopia": Cubans facing the check payment

How can a retiree live on 2,500 Cuban pesos?

Queue, heat, and resilience: The daily ordeal of Cubans trying to withdraw money from the bank

Are all state workers now "vulnerable"? What the new salary scale of the regime reveals

"One carton of eggs costs more than the increase": Cubans explain to Díaz-Canel the real cost of living

Cubans erupt over Díaz-Canel's remarks on the salary increase: "It doesn't even last them three days."

The Guantánamo government admits that banks do not have enough cash and threatens sanctions against those who refuse transfers

With light, cash, and connection, the Holguín bank once again leaves retirees in the lurch

Official journalist who covered the electricity crisis for years cannot collect their pension

Local businesses will be responsible for paying the pensions of thousands of Cubans

Díaz-Canel on the increase in salaries and pensions: "It shows that the reforms protect the most vulnerable."

"Eight hours lying on the curb": journalist portrays the ordeal of collecting a pension in Cuba

Empty seats inside, elderly people under the sun outside: they denounce a humiliating day for pension collection at a bank in Holguín

Private businesses stop accepting small bills, deepening the monetary chaos in Santiago de Cuba

Aging in Cuba is a tragedy: miserable pensions, hunger, and neglect

Official press admits the failure of transfer payments in Cuba

The government collects first and informs later: they officially announce the bread price hike in Havana with a week's delay

Díaz-Canel proposes that state-owned enterprises use their profits to assist retirees and workers

René Navarro denounces the reality of Cuba: "It is a mental and physical torture."

Manuel Marrero on the 176 measures: "The human being at the center of every decision"