The payment of pensions in January 2026 through post offices will begin on January 7th (Wednesday) and will end on January 20th (Tuesday). The transfers of the amounts for the January pensions to the accounts of pensioners who receive their money by bank transfer will be made on January 7th, 2026, the press center of the National Social Security Institute (NSI) announced. The date for payment of unemployment benefits in the first month of the year is January 15 (Thursday), BTA wrote.
"With the last transfers for 2025, the National Social Insurance Institute symbolically closed a chapter in which the lev served us for more than a century as the currency that accompanied the working life of generations of Bulgarians. From January 1, 2026, our country, as a full member of the European family, embarks on a new path with the introduction of the euro. The NSSI remains committed to ensuring a smooth transition and timeliness of all future payments", the announcement also states.
Information on all types of payments made by the NSSI to insured persons and pensioners is updated every month and is available here.
From the beginning of next year, Bulgaria will officially adopt the euro, and this will happen with a short transition period that will last throughout January. In the first month of 2026, there will be two legal tenders in our country - euro and lev. Within this period of dual circulation, all non-cash payments, such as payments with bank cards, bank transfers, etc. will be made in euro, while payments in cash will allow the use of both currencies. After the expiration of the dual circulation period - from February 1, 2026, the lev ceases to be legal tender. From the beginning of February next year, the euro remains the sole official currency of Bulgaria.