Retirees

Bandec in Guantánamo promises loans and other benefits to private small and medium enterprises that pay pensions to retirees

Roberto Perdomo reveals why he does not leave Cuba: "My pension is not enough for me to visit my grandson."

Inspectoras fine an entrepreneur and his retired worker 48,000 pesos while hunger intensifies in Cuba

Economist questions what will happen to pension payments if small and medium-sized enterprises run out of cash

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

These are the AARP's tips for making retirees' money go further 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 in Cuban banks

Elías Amor reacts to a Cuban who reports long lines of retirees at banks unable to withdraw their pensions

"Let’s hope that path is not like the utopia": Cubans facing the payment of the checkbook

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

Queue, heat, and endurance: The daily ordeal of Cubans 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 raise": Cubans explain to Díaz-Canel the real cost of living

Cubans explode with outrage 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 reject transfers

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

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

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

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

"Eight hours lying on a sidewalk": journalist depicts the ordeal of collecting a pension in Cuba

Empty seats inside, the elderly under the sun outside: they report a humiliating day for pension collection at the 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 first collects and then informs: they officially announce the price increase of bread in Havana a week late

Díaz-Canel proposes that state 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."

The rise in bread prices in Havana sparks criticism for its impact on impoverished individuals and families

The new minimum wage in Cuba is now in effect, but no one will receive a peso until August

The regime will recognize up to 10 years of family caregiving as work time for retirement

The banked Cuba that the government promised is sinking while cash fuels the informal market

"This is private": Sale of bread denied to retired journalist who tried to pay with 5 peso bills

Cuban grandfather, 70 years old: "How can I eat for an entire month with 4,000 pesos?"

Chequera reveals the "real" usefulness of magnetic cards in Cuba

"It's disgraceful": Huge line of retirees waiting to cash their checks at a bank in Santiago de Cuba

"Where in the country is that?": Bandec says that retirees are their priority

Three days to access 40% of the salary: citizen reports collapse in money management in Cuba

"With the humble and for the humble? The generation that made the most sacrifices feels abandoned by the reforms in Cuba."

Cubans bury the official triumphalism over the announced increase in the minimum wage: "What does it suffice to buy?"

What can you buy in Cuba with the new minimum wage? Not even a carton of eggs

Foreign franchises, wholesale markets, and fewer subsidies: this is how Cuban trade will change

The regime wants private companies to help support retirees, the elderly, and social dining facilities

Díaz-Canel: The basic basket will be reserved only for retirees and vulnerable individuals

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) delivers blocked pensions to 44 Cubans after nearly 65 years

The Granma government admits that it does not have enough money to pay more than 111,000 retirees

Bank robbed in Havana during a blackout hours before pension payments

Prices in Bayamo: a carton of eggs for 4,000 pesos, a pound of sugar for 400 pesos, and oil for 1,500 pesos

"Everything seems like a curfew": Cuban denounces shortages and exorbitant prices at a fair

How much does a pension for a retiree in Cuba yield? Influencer conducts an experiment

ATMs are disabled to prevent people from "bothering," leading to chaos in front of Banco Metropolitano in Havana

More than three million pesos designated for retirees were stolen from a Post Office in Pinar del Río

Amid deficits and budgetary mismanagement, PCC in Havana calls to correct “negative trends” in the economy

Cuban journalist Santiago Ramírez Frías has passed away, the voice of Cárdenas radio for more than five decades

Forced Banking: The Central Bank of Cuba Insists on Digitizing Payments in a Country Without Cash or Stable Connectivity

Cash crisis forces the government to rely on small and medium-sized enterprises to pay pensions in Holguín

Retirees in Holguín are still condemned to humiliating lines to cash their meager checks

The average salary in Cuba loses more than 20% of its value in a year despite official increases

Neither cups nor spoons, and with meals of peas and boiled spaghetti: this is what a shelter in Cuba is like