Congressman Jorge Luis Flores Ancachi, from the Popular Action bench, presented the ‘Bill that mitigates the family economic crisis by authorizing the voluntary withdrawal of up to four tax tax units, to members of the Private Pension Fund Administration System’ (PL no. 6032/2023-CR). The purpose of this proposal is to exceptionally and voluntarily allow contributors to withdraw up to S/19,800 from their pensions.
This initiative would be the second to enter this week, since Kelly Portalatino, congressman from Peru Libre, also presented a PL last Thursday, September 28 to authorize the voluntary withdrawal of up to 4 UITs from the AFP funds. Thus, To date, there are a total of 13 projects regarding a new retreat.
“With the weakened economy and inflation that is declining very slowly, alerts are raised that the country would close 2023 with an increase in poverty for the second consecutive year, approaching the 30% reached with the pandemic,” can be read in the explanatory memorandum of the document.
“This situation has resulted in the prices of basic supplies having increased, families do not have enough money to be able to purchase these products, we know that the contributions that are withheld in the AFPs decrease every day due to the economic recession added to the poor economic management of the AFP managers themselves; for which those who pay the consequence are the members themselves, so it is important that they have the free availability of their contributions up to their 4 UIT, with the sole purpose of giving them economic availability, to be able to reduce the consequences of a natural phenomenon, such as the phenomenon of El Niño Mundial”, it is also added.
Furthermore, the PL establishes that the Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS) will have the function of preparing a regulation within a period of no more than 30 calendar days after the publication of this law, under the responsibility of its owner.
Likewise, it is noted that the SBS must install a permanent advisory office for those citizens who wish to benefit from this measure, as well as those who seek to disaffiliate or transfer their funds to another banking, financial or mutual fund entity. However, it is not applicable to those who qualify to access the Special Early Retirement Regime for Unemployment (REJA).
It is relevant to note that the Congressional Economy Commission, chaired by César Revilla, announced that the parliamentarians who are authors of the bills whose purpose is to release AFP funds must support their initiatives in October, after the representation week of the 25th to September 29th.
Source: Larepublica
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