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The Executive responded to the request of different government and opposition parliamentarians who seek to expand the economic aid promised by the government in the midst of the new quarantines.
The government presented, during the afternoon of this Wednesday, a counterproposal to the Senate Finance Committee, of the bill that seeks to provide new economic aid to people in the midst of new quarantines decreed throughout the country.
The Minister of Finance, Rodrigo Cerda, He was in charge of presenting the Executive’s proposals to the senators, which were drawn up precisely after hearing the opinion of different parliamentarians from the ruling party and also from the opposition. There, new benefits and increases in existing ones are incorporated.
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Among the modifications to the project of financial support instruments to face quarantines, the government proposed add to the bonus of 100 thousand pesos that had been offered to those receiving life annuity pensions, to the pensioners who are under programmed withdrawal and also to the beneficiaries of the old pension system.
According to the words of the minister, about 600 thousand people would be included in the 100 thousand pesos bonus, although there will be requirements. Retirees from the old system must prove a pension of less than 408 thousand pesos.
Another proposal aims to increase the bonus to carriers who have seen their income decrease. The initial project it raised 350 thousand pesos and with this modification it rose to 500 thousand pesos, In addition to changing the comparison base to access the benefit that was previously the two months January-December 2019 and 2020, and now it will be the twelve months of 2019 with the twelve months of 2020.
Another additional resource that the government committed was a additional fund for the world of cultures and arts, with an extra seven million dollars.
