After nearly seven continuous hours of debate, Commission VII of the Senate adjourned the session on Tuesday, but not before having discussed and given the go-ahead to almost all of the 91 articles contained in the pension reform project presented by the Government to the Legislature.
(Also read: In 5 hours of discussion, more than 82% of the articles of the pension have been approved)
Not only was there approval en bloc of several articles, in the first shipment there were 43, which did not have any proposal. As the discussions approached the most controversial and crucial issues of this reform, the debate on the articles became more tense and slow, as when articles 19 and 24 were discussed, which refer to the threshold of three minimum wages of the Contributive Pillar. , as well as the Savings Fund that will be created to manage the resources resulting from the transfer of the Private Pension Fund Administrators (AFP), respectively, which were approved, in the midst of an intense discussion by senators and government representatives, such as Gloria Inés Ramírez, manage the Job.
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At the edge of the afternoon, the senators of Commission VII approved articles 18, 30, 32, 33, 37 and 49. Specifically, article 37 refers to early pension, one of the high points of this ongoing project.
The article mentions that affiliates who are not in the transition regime and who reach sixty-two (62) years of age if they are women or sixty-five (65) years of age if they are men, who do not meet the minimum weeks for access the old-age pension of the Contributive Pillar and have more than (1,000) weeks of contributions, you can enjoy the early old-age benefit.
The issue of the threshold of the three minimum wages of the Contributive Pillar dominated a good stretch of the day, because while the Minister of Labor defended the need for that threshold not to move from there, since in principle there was talk of four wages , some senators insisted on the idea that this be lowered to two salaries.
Norma Hurtado, senator from the U Party, who recorded for the debate in plenary that the community will seek to lower the threshold to two minimum wages.
The other subject of great debate on Tuesday was that of the Savings Fund, which continued to obtain much controversy to the extent that the project does not specify the Government’s commitment not to use the resources that reach it for spending. ordinary State, despite the fact that the Executive insisted that this commitment exists. The article was approved with the due limitations of the Government to make use of those resources.
The session in which at first there were some signs of possible setbacks for the discussion of the articles of the pension reform project, gave the go-ahead to more than 82 percent of the articles in the first five hours of debate.
Senators from the Conservative Party, Nadia Blel Scaff and José Alfredo Marín, decided to stay out of the debate until the Ethics Commission resolved the challenges that they had up to now, but until the end of the debate, said commission had not ruled on the I respect
The Commission was summoned for this Wednesday from 8 in the morning to continue debating what remains of the articles of the pension project.