Government evaluates raising ONP pensions

The Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) reported that it will present a proposal to increase the pensions of the Pension Normalization Office (ONP), whose retirees are from legislative decrees No. 19990 and 20530. This measure is part of the points of the so-called Agenda 19 presented by the trade union centrals.

Although details of the new planned amount were not provided, this is one of the main demands of affiliates and retirees who claim that in 21 years they only had a single increase in pensions.

And it is that for 18 years S / 415 of minimum pension and S / 857.36 of maximum benefit were paid. Amounts that were readjusted only in 2019 when the minimum was changed to S/ 500 and the maximum was S/ 893, as is currently in force.

From the National Central of Retirees of Peru (Cenajupe) they proposed that the minimum benefit be equivalent to the Minimum Vital Remuneration (RMV); that is, S/ 930. And for the maximum pension, they propose that it not be less than one and a half RMV; that is, S / 1,395 approximately.

Meanwhile, from Congress there is a bill from the Free Peru caucus that also proposes raising the minimum pension to the equivalent of the RMV, although they propose that it be progressive in a period not exceeding two years. This initiative must be approved in the Economy and Labor commissions, and then go on to be debated in plenary.

“Three years ago, the Constitutional Court ordered the State to comply with the increases established in the transitory provision of the Constitution, but nothing, we are the most forgotten sector and eventually we earn tips of S/ 500. Not even the maximum pension of S/ 893 arrives at the RMV”, said Oscar Alarcón, president of Cenajupe.

The leader recalled that when the current President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, was in an electoral campaign, he promised that pensioners in his Government would not receive less than the minimum wage.

“A workers’ pension should not be less than the minimum wage in Peru,” Castillo Terrones said at the time, as seen in a video circulating on social media.

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Agenda 19. The MTPE reported that they will also propose a new Law on Collective Labor Relations to guarantee the right to join, exercise union activities, collective bargaining and strike.