This pension reform closed by the Minister of Inclusion, Jose Luis Escriva, The European Commission will allow retirees to choose between term 25 years of current calculation or extension to 29 years being able to extract both at the worst price.
One of these offers will be Include detail protector And unions at the social dialogue table meeting They called at 12:30 today according to some media outlets and are hoping to at least reach an agreement with the union part, and it has been confirmed by government sources.
Participation comes to the meeting after achieving agreement with the European Commission on the negotiation environment and advancing the pact at the political level.
In his statements regarding Cadena Ser, Secretary of the Podemos Organization and Minister of State for the 2030 Agenda, last night, Lilith VerstryngeI hope to close an agreement on reform soon.
“I think that would be good news,” he added.
This last block of pension reform, committed milestones Spain For payment of the fourth installment of New Generation Funds.
main obstacle
On the calendar, this reform was scheduled to be implemented by the end of 2022, but the complexity of the “tripartite” negotiations has extended deadlines for Brussels, government partners, unions and employers.
Extension of the calculation period, that is, the years taken into account in the calculation of the first pension, main obstacle to this negotiation.
Both unions and Podemos opposed Considering an expansion as implying an actual interruption your first pension
They realized a first approach from SGK that increased this period from 25 to 30 years, and they were able to remove two of them.
Finally it seems reform will be more flexible allowing the retiree to choose between maintaining the 25th calculation or extending it to 27 years if the retiree compensates.
SGK will apply the most advantageous system by default.
Besides this point, the reform includes measures to improve the income of the system, starting with the abolition of the upper limit of the maximum contribution bases; this is an element rejected by employers who will predictably withdraw from the contract.
Belarra: “What Podemos says is possible”
Minister of Social Rights and Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarraadvocated pension reform It has been agreed by the Government with the European Commission that a “hard-worked” proposal which means that “what Podemos has always said is possible”.
“We give rights to retirees by guaranteeing the sustainability of the system, thanks to the increase in income,” Belarra said on social networks.