Pension reform endorsed | The Century of Torreón

Deputies from Morena and allies approved the reform for the creation of the Pension Fund for Wellbeing, which will be nourished by the savings of workers over 70 years of age who have contributed to the Afore and do not claim their resources before that age.

The creation of the Pension Fund occurred after the previous debate was suspended because the opinion under discussion was different from the one that had been approved by the Social Security Commission.

The opinion was approved in general by a majority of 252 votes by Morena, PT and PVEM, and 212 against the PRI, PAN, PRD and MC, as well as four abstentions, while in the individual vote it was 251 votes in favor, 199 against and 4 abstentions.

During the discussion of the ruling, opposition legislators threatened to seek the repeal of the federal initiative, however, the claims were responded to by Morena and its allies with the announcement that the issue of pensions would be taken up again.

At the beginning of the analysis, Morena deputy Angélica Ivonne Cisneros Luján supported the project and assured that “the objective of the ruling is for workers to be able to retire at 100% with the base salary they had at the beginning of their employment.”

On the occasion, deputies José Juan Barrientos Maya, from the PRD; María Fernanda Félix Fregoso, from MC; Yolanda de la Torre, from the PRI, and Éctor Jaime Ramírez, from the PAN, presented suspensive motions in order to avoid the approval of a ruling that, they stressed, “seeks to disappear workers’ savings.” They were all rejected.

According to the minutes, the Pension Fund for Wellbeing will be made up of about 40 billion pesos that the federal government will take from the savings of workers over 70 years of age who have contributed to the Afore and do not claim their resources before that age. .

It also establishes taking resources from the extinction of the National Financial Institution for Agricultural, Rural, Forestry and Fisheries Development, and from the payment of debts to the ISSSTE for fees and contributions from states, municipalities, agencies and entities of local governments, as well as income from the alienation of real estate owned by the same institute and the income paid by the federal tax credits made by the federal entities, their municipalities or any of their public entities.

According to the new reform, the so-called Pension Fund for Wellbeing helps to complement the pensions of those who began contributing in July 1997.

During the discussion, Mario Rodríguez, MC deputy, said that the ruling does not include actuarial runs from the IMSS and ISSSTE in order to make visible the number of beneficiaries that are expected, and considered that Consar should have had a relevant role in the change.