Persons with supplementary benefits (EL/PC) to the AHV and IV
bsv-el-recipients
- Publisher
- BSV/OFAS/UFAS (via OFS/BFS)
- Access method
api- Table id
su-d-13.04.01-bsv-el-1.4- Licence
- Still to be confirmed with the BSV: BSV statistics distributed by the BFS; the DAM metadata states no terms of use. Figures are quoted with the source named until BSV confirms the terms.
- Coverage
- Geography national · referenceDay 1 January and 31 December · from 1999 · to 2025
- Gaps
- No nationality breakdown in the current BSV tables (the table by nationality ended with 2018); no age breakdown here.
- Used on
- WORK, PROB poverty-cost-of-living.supplementary-benefits
- Known limits
- Supplementary benefits are paid on top of an AHV or IV pension (or a survivor’s pension) when the pension and other income do not cover the minimum costs of living; almost everyone counted here is therefore also counted among the AHV or IV pensioners, and the two counts must never be added. "Persons with EL" includes the spouses and children taken into account in an EL calculation, so it is higher than the number of cases (EL-Fälle). BSV publishes the share of pensioners who receive EL in its yearly EL report; Votara does not compute that share, because dividing these persons by the pensions of bsv-ahv-pensions or bsv-iv-pensions does not reproduce BSV’s figures (different counting units).
- Processed file
- data/processed/bsv-el-recipients.csv
How current is this data?
- Freshness
- Up to date
According to its update rhythm, no newer edition is expected yet.
- Period covered
- 1999–2025
- Last change of the data
- Last check of the source
- Update rhythm
- Yearly
Ledger note (in English): Yearly, in May of the next year (2025 data on 26.05.2026).
- Votara checks the source
- Every week, and every day from 3 days before to 14 days after an announced publication date
The state is computed each time the site is built; this page shows it as of . Results of the accuracy checks
Transformations
- XLSX su-d-13.04.01-bsv-el-1.4 "Personen mit EL, Bestände und Mutationen nach Versicherungszweig" (current edition via the DAM orderNr URL), one sheet with one block per year (Total, EL zur AV, EL zur HV, EL zur IV); columns located by their three-row header ("Bestand am 1. Jan.", "Saldo", "Bestand am 31. Dez."). Script: scripts/fetch/bsv-el-recipients.ts
- branch: Total → total, EL zur AV → old_age, EL zur HV → survivors, EL zur IV → invalidity. Checks (the fetch fails otherwise): 1 January + net change = 31 December, and the three branches add up to the total.