Due to the state’s debts to the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), former lawmaker and pensioner representative Henry Llanes filed a protective suit against the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, and the Minister of Economy and Finance, Pablo Arosemen.

The hearing will be held next Friday, November 10, at 10:30 a.m., at the Pichincha Labor Court Unit, located in the parish of Iñaquito, Quito.

With regard to the lack of payment to the IESS, the Government indicates that it is working to fulfill the outstanding obligations and has remitted 665 million dollars so far in 2023

This protective action was filed on October 24 against two bodies for alleged non-compliance with the provisions of Articles 7, 10, 103 and 237 of the Social Security Act, which relate to economic transfers that must be made. security health benefits and pension payments.

Citing IESS Director General Diego Salgado, the prosecutor indicated that the accumulated values ​​that the state should pay to Social Security amount to $10,051.9 million, whose medical debt dates back to 2006 and the payment of 40% of the pension pension from 2012.

A decision on this protective action is requested so that within 90 days from the adoption of the decision, with the joint work of the Minister of Economy and the director of IESS, a “payment schedule” of the accumulated debts that the portfolio of public finances must pay to the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute.

Likewise, it is requested that the minister and the director of the IESS within 90 days “present to the competent state bodies a draft reform of the Law on Social Security, with the aim of realizing the autonomy of social security. as determined by Article 370 of the Constitution of the Republic, in accordance with Articles 369, 371 and 372 of the constitutional text.” And this with the aim, according to the prosecutor, to ensure the proper management of mandatory social security funds, especially what corresponds to the management of their assets , as well as the contributions of members and employers and the management of their incomes.

The response of Finance to IESS is as if the worker was paid an incomplete salary and was told ‘what are you protesting’, says the expert

The urgent reform – according to the request of the protective suit – is “because the content of the Social Security Act has not been updated as foreseen by the 2008 constitutional reform, as well as from November 30, 2001 (the date of entry into force of the Social Security Act) until today the Ordinance for the implementation of this law has not entered into force, despite many of its provisions specifying that this must be done in accordance with the provisions of the Law.

According to the lawsuit, “the omission of this rule caused IESS bodies to implement their decisions through resolutions that are not substitutes for the Regulation.”