After two months of work, the Technical Commission on Pensions submitted the final report on its analysis of the pension reform presented by the Government.
The body, made up of deputies and senators, produced a document in which the proposals on which there was consensus and those on which there was not were recorded, a debate that will have to be resolved in the Senate’s Labor Committee.
The ideas included in the technical report include the creation of mechanisms to increase savings, not expanding PGU coverage to 100%, an agreement to have intergenerational solidarity for a transitional period, and the need to strengthen the Superintendency of Pensions, among others.
“We have a number of proposals on which there is already consensus to be able to move forward,” said the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Jeannette Jara, who stated that although the objective continues to be to raise pensions, “there are fundamental issues on which agreement was not reached and now what is appropriate is to be able to discuss it, which is to fine-tune within the pool of proposals that were made what will be the mechanism through which we will not only raise the pensions of future retirees, but also those of women and current pensions in particular.”
For his part, the president of RN and senator, Rodrigo Galilea, said regarding the work of the technical commission “that the inputs that come from the Chamber and the inputs that come from the experts open a window so that we can build something that is sustainable, well thought out and permanent over time. I at least have a personal disposition to this, I believe that there are substantive elements that can allow us to build an agreement and I believe that this would be very good for the country.”
From La Moneda they pointed out that during the last week of July the idea of legislating the project that seeks to reform the pension system would be voted on, an initiative that was presented by the Government of Gabriel Boric in November 2022, where it began its legislative process in the Chamber of Deputies.
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