The pension reform initiative continues to advance in its process in Congress. In fact, the bill has already passed its first test in the Seventh Committee of the Senate and has three more debates ahead of it.
Although the text was produced in its first debate with few changes, Among the key points that were addressed in the discussion, it will be possible to make some adjustments in the conditions to access the transition regime.
(See: Pension reform: this was what happened in the first debate).
Traditionally, in the configuration of pension-type projects The transition guidelines with the current system are determined to be adequate.
In this case, the initiative establishes how this process will take place for those people who are affiliated with the current social security pension system and who are close to meeting the requirements to obtain an old-age pension.
Said conditions are condensed in articles 76 and 77 of the articles.
(See: These are the requirements to inherit a pension in Colombia).
Pension
Both in the original project and in the paper it is defined that «For people who, upon the entry into force of this Comprehensive Old Age social protection system, have 1,000 weeks of contributions, Law 100 of 1993 and the regulations that modify, repeal or replace it will continue to be applied in their entirety. «.
However, after extensive discussion, it was proposed to reduce this number. The agreement that came to define that The term will be 900 weeks for men and 750 weeks for women.
(See: These are the assumptions with which the Treasury is doing accounts).
For his part, for article 77that determines the conditions through which a regime transfer could be made, it will be determined that men and women who have more than the weeks of contribution already stated and who are less than ten years away from reaching pension age They will have a period of two years to be able to make this change.
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