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The Minister of Labor, Maria Jose Zaldivar, He advanced that one of the options that the Government manages to unlock the pension reform is establish a quote through the consumption of each person.
As explained in Now is time of Cooperative, every time a person acquires something, a contribution will be allocated to the future pension, therefore, it would increase pensions across the board regardless of whether or not the person is affiliated with an AFP, to build “minimum social security floors.”
“That is an idea that has been around for a long time, and it is a way in which one can collect with respect to a population that is much more than the contributors, and that way you can ensure a benefit to many more people, not necessarily only to affiliates to the AFP system “, he specified.
Regarding the viability of this modification, the minister stated that “we are analyzing it, it is a proposal that has been raised by different sectors, and that obviously is part of the work when one has to be doing and analyzing the different alternatives that are presented” .
Beyond this proposal to generate a universal basic pension, what’s trapping the conversation today is what the 6 percent increase will go to in the contribution, because while the Executive intends to allocate 3 percent for each worker and 3 percent to a pay-as-you-go fund to raise the pensions of current retirees, the opposition wants all that percentage to reach said fund.
“The reform is not asleep”
On the other hand, the head of Labor came up against criticism from Chile Vamos and the DC for the slowness in the processing of this project, which remains in the Senate Labor Commission, assuring that “the pension reform is not asleep, we continue working. “
In that sense, Zaldívar attributed this delay to the wave of initiatives that had to be approved to face the pandemicDespite the differences that persist today with the opposition, she expressed her confidence in reaching an agreement.
Despite this, in Cooperative senator dc Carolina Goic He called on the Executive to be honest about his position: “Does the government want pension reform or not? How long ago did the President say, with great fanfare in La Moneda, ‘here we are going to do major surgery’? So that’s enough.”
“We have worked very seriously and rigorously, because I want us to have an increase in pensions, because It seems to me that it is untenable to tell the old people ‘keep waiting for this to go ahead’“, he emphasized.
The government hopes that during September the pension reform will be discussed again in the Senate instance.
