2024-03-24 03:44:21
Enrique Lee, deputy who presented the initiative, maintained that the members “could carry out an administration as efficient as or more efficient than the pension fund administrators.”
As a project that “gives value and encourages individual savings,” the deputy of the Christian Social and Independent Committee bench, Enrique Lee, defined the initiative through which proposes a new withdrawal of funds from the AFP.
The legislator raised the proposal after last January the Chamber of Deputies approve the idea of legislating pension reform.
One of the articles included in this initiative contemplates the possibility of access a self-loan of funds.
“Encourage individual savings”
Deputy Enrique Lee’s proposal involves a withdrawal of AFP funds of up to 15% of the total saved. According to him, the initiative was born “from the citizens and implies having the own effort of each worker“.
“I have the firmest conviction that Individual freedoms must prevail, above all, because they are the basis of our social construction“he added.
According to the parliamentarian, the project that would allow a withdrawal of up to 15% of AFP funds “gives value and encourages individual savings, making it clear that greater well-being in old age depends largely on the responsibility that contributors have in his active stage of life.
“The above, added to the high levels of access to information, give me the certainty that There are people who could carry out an administration as efficient as or more efficient than pension fund administrators.“Argued the deputy about the advantages of his proposal.