Chamber will review the withdrawal of 10% of the Government starting Monday and could be voted on next week | National

Through the president of the Labor and Social Security Commission of the Lower House, Gael Yeomans, a special session was called to start the process in the second process of the bill that allows the second withdrawal of up to 10% of pension funds promoted by the Government.

Likewise, it was indicated that the commission will take place next Monday between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., so that next week the initiative could be voted on in court, considering that it will have the utmost urgency of La Moneda.

For his part, the vice president of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies, Evópoli Francisco Undurraga, indicated that -in a committee agreement- it was determined that the Government’s project from account in room this Saturday.

Therefore, said day would be the initiative being dispatched to the Labor Commission, to then be sent to the Lower House.

Voting and approval

On Thursday, the Senate Chamber approved the bill that allows the second withdrawal of up to 10% of pension funds promoted by the Executive, which received its green light with 35 votes in favor, 1 against and 5 abstentions, being reapaldad in general and in particular.

During the review of the indications, the relevance of concentrating the delivery of the withdrawal in a single payment and the interest of avoiding that said redemption is considered income, that is, paying taxes, was analyzed. Both ideas did not prosper.

Consequently, at the end of the vote in general and in particular, Senators Yasna Provoste (DC), Adriana Muñoz (PPD) and Carlos Bianchi (IND) entered an indication seeking exclusively to eliminate the tax burden of withdrawal, however, and after the intervention of the Minister of Hacienda Ignacio Briones, it was declared inadmissible and the project was dispatched.