Should retirees receive a 13th state pension payment each year?

AI-generated summary, admin reviewed: This initiative proposed paying state old-age pensions 13 times rather than 12 times each year. This would increase annual state pension income by approximately 8.3%. Pensioners receiving supplementary benefits would keep those benefits without having them reduced because of the additional pension payment. Supporters argued that rising housing, health-insurance and food costs had reduced pensioners' purchasing power. Opponents argued that the additional payment would also go to pensioners who did not need it and would place substantial additional pressure on the pension system. The initiative did not specify how the additional expenditure would be financed. Swiss voters approved the initiative.
Should retirees receive a 13th state pension payment each year?

Seed source: Swissvotes federal popular vote dataset.
Swissvotes page: https://swissvotes.ch/vote/665.00
Official result data: https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/20240303/can665.html
Vote date: 2024-03-03
Original Swissvotes English title: Initiative for a 13th monthly pension in old-age insurance
Original German title: Initiative für eine 13. AHV-Rente
Original French title: Initiative pour une 13e rente AVS
Official English explanatory information: https://web.archive.org/web/20240302105016/https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/20240303/iniziativa-per-una-13esima-mensilita-avs.html
Official German explanatory information: https://web.archive.org/web/20240228191832/https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/abstimmungen/20240303/initiative-fuer-eine-13-ahv-rente.html
Official French explanatory information: https://web.archive.org/web/20240303100939/https://www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accueil/documentation/votations/20240303/initiative-pour-une-13e-rente-avs.html
Année Politique Suisse description: https://anneepolitique.swiss/prozesse/61689
Federal office information (German): https://web.archive.org/web/20240303080525/https://www.bsv.admin.ch/bsv/de/home/sozialversicherungen/ahv/reformen-revisionen/13-ahv-rente.html
Federal office information (French): https://web.archive.org/web/20240211141033/https://www.bsv.admin.ch/bsv/fr/home/assurances-sociales/ahv/reformes-et-revisions/13-ahv-rente.html
easyvote explainer video (German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypkbpJ12ICo
easyvote explainer video (French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmy6qcifOPo
BFS voting dashboard (English): https://abstimmungen.admin.ch/en/details/2024-03-03?proposalId=6650
BFS result map (English): https://abstimmungen.admin.ch/en/embed/2024-03-03?proposalId=6650&cardType=map
BFS voting dashboard (German): https://abstimmungen.admin.ch/details/2024-03-03?proposalId=6650
BFS voting dashboard (French): https://abstimmungen.admin.ch/fr/details/2024-03-03?proposalId=6650
BFS result map (German): https://abstimmungen.admin.ch/de/embed/2024-03-03?proposalId=6650&cardType=map
BFS result map (French): https://abstimmungen.admin.ch/fr/embed/2024-03-03?proposalId=6650&cardType=map
Official chronology (German): https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/vi/vis507.html
Official chronology (French): https://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/f/pore/vi/vis507.html