The number of pensioners exempt from ADSE contributions fell by 20% between 2020 and 2023. The largest decline (17.6%) was recorded last year, according to the 2023 performance report of ADSE, the government employee health subsystem. The Jornal de Negócios magazine reported this on Tuesday. A regulation approved by the previous government in 2021 set the tax exemption limit, previously pegged to the value of the national minimum wage, at €635, unless a discount would reduce the value. Together with the pension increases, this “decrease in the number of beneficiaries eligible for this social policy” contributed to the reduction in the number of pensioners exempt from ADSE contributions from 67,693 at the end of 2020 to 54,018 at the end of 2023. benefits fell 14% to €13.7 million. Among current beneficiaries, the vast majority (89%) are people over 65 years of age. Ages 45 to 64 include 11% of exempt retirees. In 2021, the previous government also decided to open ADSE registration to civil servants with individual employment contracts. As of the end of last year, “74,561 new holders and 44,645 family members of holders” of individual employment contracts had registered, for a total of 119,206 new beneficiaries of the subsystem, the ADSE activity report clarifies. The average age of registered owners has decreased from 52 to 42 years compared to the previous report. ADSE ended last year with a net profit of 161 million euros.