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In the midst of the advanced discussion for the second withdrawal of 10% of the AFPs, the Ministry of Finance sent a letter to the Superintendency of Pensions requesting the data and RUT of all people who withdrew 10 percent of pension funds.
The measure did not leave the opposition indifferent. The bench of the Christian Democracy decided to appeal to the Council for Transparency in order to verify the legality of the request made by the portfolio headed by Minister Ignacio Briones.
DC Deputy Gabriel Silber qualified the request as “very serious and unacceptable … because the duty to keep confidential information about each person’s sensitive information is violated. The resources that Chileans have saved in the accounts of the AFPs are each one’s money, they are private funds, as are the resources that we can have in checking accounts, savings accounts, etc. “
It also indicated that the Government was falling into a violation of private databases “and with specific details, not only of those who have already withdrawn their 10% and the amount, but even of those who could do so in a possible second new withdrawal”, making the action equivalent to an eventual request from the government authority “on the banking information of each person”, as a form of intimidation towards contributors who withdraw their funds.
The Hacienda version
From the Ministry of Finance they assured that the request presented to the Superintendency has “purely statistical”.
“According to its powers, the Ministry of Finance is permanently studying and proposing measures that affect matters related to the economic, social and financial policy of the State “they said in a statement.
“Given this, within its powers and in the context of the covid-19 pandemic, This State Portfolio requested information from the Superintendency of Pensions for purely statistical purposes, to evaluate the potential impact of the pension fund withdrawal measure on the country’s financial system and its associated fiscal and tax impact, “added Hacienda.
“To enrich this analysis, it was necessary to request the affiliate lists that allow information to be crossed with other sources of data available to the Ministry of Finance. In this way, this and other economic support measures, which have emerged in the context of the crisis produced by the covid-19 pandemic, can be jointly evaluated and modeled.“added the brief.
Meanwhile, from the Council for Transparency, they affirmed that they will officiate at the Treasury portfolio “to know if it conformed to the norm”, as revealed by its president Gloria de la Fuente.
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