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He eight months passed and the public sector retirees still waiting for him bonus payment of 10,000 bolivars announced by the ruler Nicolás Maduro on May 1, 2022.
The Delay worries former workersSince the bolivar devaluation impact on the value of this bonuswhich was equivalent to $2,222according to the exchange rate of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), corresponding to May 2, 2022 (4.50 bolivars per dollar), when the announcement was made.
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Nevertheless, these 2,222 dollars represent 514 this Sunday, January 15, if the official exchange rate of 19.45 bolivars per dollar is taken, set by the BCV on Monday, January 16. “In eight months we have lost 1,708 dollars and no authority offers us official information regarding what happened to this payment. We don’t even know if the benefit was published in the Official Gazette,” said Gerardo González, Retired from the extinct Mayor’s Office.
120,000 retirees
According to Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the single bond of 10,000 bolivars for the workers who retired between January 1, 2018 and May 1, 2022 with I would pay in three partsfor 12 months, from May 1 of that year to 2023, through the Patria System.
This announcement was made on May 2, 2022, one day following Nicolás Maduro released the information on Labor Day. “So far the universe encompasses 120,000 retirees”, Rodríguez explained at the time.
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This figure indicates that only 2.4% of former workers will benefit if we take into account that in Venezuela there are around 5,000,000 people retired from the public sector, according to figures from the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security (IVSS).
Rogelio Guerra, another former employeeconsider that this measure is discriminatory. In addition, he complained regarding the payment method. “The inflation is unstoppable in Venezuela and will continue pulverizing this money. The government should anchor it to the Petro so that it does not depreciate when it is paid in full,” he told the whistle on January 13.
What did the Minister of Labor say?
On December 6, 2022, the Minister of Labor, Francisco Torrealba, was asked regarding this bonus during an interview on the Primera Página program of Globovision.
“The official response is that the offices in charge of planning and budgeting and those that have to do with issues of workers of the national public administration continue to do the payroll sweeps of the former workersnow retired, that this benefit corresponds to them. There are elaborations of lists and following those lists are precisely defined, we will proceed as the president ordered,” he responded to a question from the audience.
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