2023-04-30 22:59:23
In the midst of the uproar over the breakup of the majority coalition that supported President Gustavo Petro in Congress to carry out his reformatón, this Sunday it was announced that the Democratic Center (CD) would be willing to support the pension reform proposed by the Government, as long as certain conditions are met.
As published by Semana magazine, the main objective, under the proposal that is supported by former president Álvaro Uribe, is that the elderly people and people who live under conditions of economic vulnerability can have an income that places them above the poverty line.
One of the suggested changes is that the process for this basic income to become real be carried out with a “reasonable gradualness”. In addition, it proposes that the state fund Colpensiones only transfer contributions up to a minimum wage, this taking into account that the current proposal of the project prepared by the Ministry of Labor speaks of up to three monthly minimum wages.
Thirdly, the CD proposes that the current affiliates to the system are not going to increase the 1,150 weeks that today are mandatory to access the minimum pension and that “The age for the return of the money is not increased either when they cannot retire.
Likewise, the fourth proposal is that any increase in the amount of contributions be deferred by workers, just at a time when real family income has decreased due to inflation.
Support from Uribismo could weigh positively in favor of Petro’s purposes, not only because of the direct power that the vote of its caucus may have in Congress, but because of the impact on the rest of the parties and public opinion, especially after the announcement made last week in the sense of the rupture of the coalition that ensured the support of the Liberal, Conservative and La U parties.
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