In August of last year, President Dina Boluarte announced that the minimum pension for retirees of the 19990 regime was going to be raised by S/100, and with this it would go from S/500 to S/600. Tired of the silence of the boss Stateolder adults have raised their voices in protest on more than one occasion and are heading towards a hunger strike.
Even the Executive tied this pension adjustment to its project to reform the pension system – which has not been debated to date –, so retirees are heading towards a hunger strike at the national level to serve them.
When asked if they will propose another project to raise pensions and no longer depend on the pension reform, the minister pointed out that they will only act.
“We don’t have it on the agenda, but here I am with Betty [Sotelo, viceministra de Hacienda] and we will see how we try to meet this requestwhich I think is reasonable, and how to give them a solution,” said Minister José Arista at a press conference.
The official clarified that when there are “complicated legal frameworks” higher levels of coordination are required, so they will “socialize the measure.”
“They lie to us, they deceive us.”
Óscar Alarcón, president of the National Center of Retirees and Pensioners of Peru (Cenajupe), recalled that for five years they have been waiting for the pensions to be raised, considering the ruling 0009-2015-PI/TC of the Constitutional Court, the Constitution itself and his request to equate it with the minimum wage.
“They lie to us, they deceive us. No pensioner must earn less than a minimum living wage. “We are on the streets because our living situation is declining,” the union leader commented to this newspaper.
Source: Larepublica
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