The pensions of retirees of the 20530 regime will increase by S/30

For two decades, the Government has increased the pensions received by retirees from the 20530 regime, which includes former public sector workers. On this occasion, through DS N°002-2024-EF, an increase of S/30 was established.

Who will receive the new amount?

The pension will be raised only for those who have turned 65 or older as of December 31 of last year. Likewise, beneficiaries must receive less than 28 Tax Tax Units (UIT) per year, equivalent to S/144,200; This amount includes pensions, bonuses, bonuses, schooling bonuses and any other concept.

And, if you have more than one pension, the readjustment is made on the one with the largest amount. Here the General Directorate of Fiscal Management of Human Resources will proceed ex officio to update the new amount in the Computer Application for the Centralized Registry of Payrolls and Data of Human Resources in the Public Sector (AIRHSP).

Only in the Pension Normalization Office (ONP) it is estimated that there are more than 36,000 pensioners, although César Abanto Revilla, partner at Rodríguez Angobaldo Abogados, remembers that the universe extends to 300,000 people, who are distributed in various ministries and state agencies. .

For this increase, the Ministry of Economy and Finance authorized a transfer of S/60 million 32,880 to finance these expenses from the resources of its Contingency Reserve. These items may not be used for purposes other than those for which they received the permission of the MEF.

The ONP informed La República that the pension readjustment will begin to be delivered from the effective date of the supreme decree that gives it life, and the January payment will be regularized along with the February payment.

A necessary change

Abanto Revilla recalls that, in 2004, a reform was promoted to end the living ID scheme or mirror effect in the 20530 regime, since its nature had been distorted and led to enormous inequalities between pensioners. The Constitutional Court endorsed these modifications.

In the 1970s, when the State’s business activity gained strength, they were transformed into public limited companies—Petroperú, for example—subject to the private regime, and under the leveling of the mirror effect, former workers of 20530 had the right to receive a similar pension. to that of an active official in the same position.

“S/4.3 billion were spent on pensions alone in 20530. Almost 15% of GDP. Since 2004, it was established that workers aged 65 or older would be readjusted according to the cost of living, inflation, and the financial capacity of the State,” he commented to this newspaper.

However, since then the State continues to fail with those affiliated with 20530 under 65 years of age, since, in the absence of its regulations, no solutions have been given to adjust to this age group.

Therefore, this annual readjustment is understood as a replacement for the leveling that prevailed in this regime until 2004.

“It started with a clean slate for everyone, taking two objective components: age and the increase in the cost of living,” the lawyer said.

Since the reform, pension increases were established from S/10 to S/43 for the thousands of former workers of 20530.

Massive adjustment at ONP is still pending

The MEF sought to raise the ONP pension to S/600 starting this year; However, to date there is no light on its materialization. Meanwhile, the Congressional Economic Commission proposes that the increase only occur in 2025.

Specialists warn that this measure is harmful because it weakens the state pension model. Abanto warns that the reform would be conditioned to “political decisions” and for 15 years he has been frustrated for that reason.