Decree granting pensioners an increase of 30% starting from June

President Ahmed Al-Sharaa issued Decree No. (135) of 2026, granting pensioners covered by the Insurance, Pensions, and Social Insurance Laws and their amendments, an increase of 30 percent over the pension due on the effective date of this decree.

The text of the decree is as follows:

Decree No. (135) of 2026

President of the Republic

Based on the provisions of the Constitutional Declaration

and the requirements of the supreme national interest

  It draws the following:

Article (1):

Pensioners covered by the Insurance, Pensions, and Social Insurance Laws and their amendments shall be granted an increase of (30) percent, thirty percent, to the pension due on the effective date of this Decree, so that the new pension shall not be less than the general minimum wage specified in Decree No. (67) of 2026, which amounts to 12,560 new Syrian pounds.

The increase specified in paragraph (a) of this Article shall be benefited by the following:

1. Pensioners, and the increase shall be distributed to them according to the shares specified in the laws and regulations subject to them.

2. Pensioners entitled to natural disability pensions.

3- Pensioners of total injury disability.

4. Partial disability pensioners, who are civilians who are not engaged in work, and do not receive any other pension from any other insurance entity, except for the mobile quota.

Article (2):

The new pension of any employee of public entities and entities applying the provisions of Legislative Decree No. (60) of 2013, when referring him to retirement after the entry into force of this Decree, shall not be less than the pension he would have been entitled to had he been referred to retirement on the day preceding the date of its effectiveness, in addition to the increase stipulated in Article (1) of this Decree.

Article (3):

The amount of the increase in the pension received by pensioners who worked in other than public entities under the provisions of this decree shall not exceed the maximum amount of pension increase received by pensioners who were employed in the State.

Article (4):

The executive instructions for the provisions of this Decree shall be issued by a decision of the Minister of Finance in coordination with the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor.

Article (5):

This decree shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall be effective as of 1/6/2026.

President Al-Shara: We continue to develop the wage and salary system

President Al-Sharia confirmed on Monday evening in a post on the (X) platform that the government continues to improve salaries and wages to ensure a decent life for Syrians.

He said: "We continue to develop the wage and salary system to ensure a decent life for citizens, both workers and retirees, since the liberation until the signing of Decrees No. (76) and (68) of 2026, all workers have benefited from the general increases, and more than 861 thousand qualitative increases in vital sectors, as part of a gradual and escalating reform path that balances reality and hope in its steps and prospects."

Earlier this month, Decree 67 came into effect, which stipulated a 50% increase in the salaries of employees in a number of ministries, and Decree 68, which stipulated a qualitative increase in the salaries of employees in the Ministries of Education, Higher Education, Health, Endowments, the Central Bank of Syria, the Central Organization for Control and Inspection, and the Atomic Energy Commission.