• THE REALITY OF PENSIONS (II) Escrivá puzzles unions and employers with the pension reform: "We are as at the beginning"

José Luis Escrivá, Minister of Social Security, has advanced this afternoon that he plans to offer a check of up to 12,000 euros to pensioners who postpone their retirement for one year.

Escrivá has advanced this proposal within his explanation of the progress he has made to date in the commission that Congress made him last November to agree on reforms of the pension system with the social agents and return them to the commission of the Toledo Pact.

The parties have received him with

a barrage of criticism

for his delay in achieving results and the opacity about what specific proposals he makes and what calendar he manages.

The incentive to postpone the retirement age would consist of 12,000 euros in the case of maximum pensions,

a 4% annual increase

in the amount of the pension or a mixture of both, that is, a lump sum combined with a supplement additional increment.

This is the face of a measure that would have its cross in the penalties for those who decide to anticipate their retirement in measures that have not materialized but that will focus on the highest pensions, as Escrivá has advanced, since

the current system is " regressive "

.

The minister wants these measures, together with the abolition of forced retirement in the agreements for those who have reached the legal age and the revaluation of pensions, to be already agreed, approved in Congress and implemented at the end of the year.

Escrivá has assured on several occasions that the European Union urges him

to know what reforms to the system he is going to apply, but when he has asked most of the parties to clarify which calendar he manages and what specific measures he proposes, he has not specified it.

"Two and a half months have passed after you told us that you had advanced negotiations to revalue based on the CPI but you have not presented us with an agreement. What is wrong with you? What are you going to say to companies when you tell them that it is eliminated? Forced retirement? Self-employed workers also say that they are not close to an agreement with you: we want certainty and work, "

Tomás Cabezón,

PP deputy

,

has told him

.

Criticisms have also come from the government itself.

United We can, which has criticized the constant announcements from Social Security that the agreement is about to fall but the unions are manifesting in the street.

"We will support measures that protect pensioners, if the calculation of years of contributions is going to increase, look for agreements with the PP", they have warned him.

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