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There was a session scheduled for this Wednesday in the Senate Labor Committee to advance the pension reform. However, the appointment was canceled. All this in the midst of a busy agenda that the senators have in their work in the room, and after the departure of the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, who was leading the reform negotiations, which the opposition has described as a delay in this process .
Given all of the above, the senators of the instance have recognized that it is unlikely to reach an agreement this month, as they were initially proposed, so the issue would have to be postponed until March, the month in which the parliamentarians return from recess legislative.
Against this backdrop, President Sebastián Piñera insisted in the afternoon that the idea is to reach an agreement in the pension debate with the opposition. In fact, he assured that he met with the president of the Labor Commission, Senator Juan Pablo Letelier, to cover this issue.
“The government maintains its commitment and we are going to make every effort to reach an agreement in the Senate that allows us to improve the pensions of all current and future pensioners in our country,” said the President at a press point after promulgating the Law Fogape 2.0.
There he noted that “We had set the month of January as a deadline to reach an agreement. I just met with Senator Juan Pablo Letelier to talk about these issues and I am confident that we are going to reach an agreement and we are going to improve pensions for those 800,000 middle-class people, women, who undoubtedly need a more dignified pension, a better pension ”.
The President recalled that “our government has a commitment to make a profound reform to our pension system that improves the pensions of all current and future pensioners.”
Along these lines, he said that “this program has already completed its first stage. At the end of 2019 we launched the reform of the Solidarity Pillar that allowed improving pensions in 50% of those who receive the Basic Solidarity Pension and those who receive the Solidarity Pension Contribution: 1.7 million people, that is, the vast majority of our pensioners are already incorporated into this reform of the Solidarity Pillar ”.
In this regard, he continued saying that in any case they have “a commitment to 800 thousand additional pensioners, which are basically those who are not in the Solidarity Pillar. The middle-class pensioners, the female pensioners. And that is why we sent in 2019 a bill that was approved by the Chamber of Deputies more than a year ago and that has been under discussion for a year in the Senate that what it seeks is to improve the pensions of future pensioners through increase the contribution that the employer makes to people’s savings, but also improve the pensions of current pensioners, of those who are already retired ”.
Regarding this, he said that “this second stage of the pension reform is what is being discussed in the Senate and that includes an additional contribution to the 10 points that already exist, of six additional points, which the employer will finance, in gradually ”.
Likewise, he explained that the government has “proposed that a part of this greater contribution go to the pension savings of each worker and another part go to a solidarity collective fund to improve the pensions of the most needy of the most needy, of women, of middle class; intragenerational solidarity ”.
