The
Ministry of Social Security
has presented this Monday a proposal for the second part of
the pension reform
at the social dialogue table which, among other measures, includes the possibility of
extending the calculation period
for public pensions of the last 25 years of working life currently used
to the last 30 years, with the possibility of choosing the best 28.
As reported by the Government at the end of the
meeting with the employers' association and the unions,
its initial proposal subject to negotiation "includes the
moderate extension
of the pension calculation period, which supposes the election of the best 28 years out of 30 years (that is, the worst 24 monthly payments are discarded), a change that
would be made progressively
", as happened with the last extension of the computation period from 15 to 25 years.
The Ministry headed by
José Luis Escrivá
has also proposed improving the treatment of
contribution gaps
(long periods without contributions) for
women
, and also for
men
whose contribution career has been reduced
after having a child,
in line with the functioning of the gender gap supplement, which had to be corrected following the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union that declared the supplement discriminatory for men.
They also propose giving special treatment to the contribution gaps of the
self
-employed group .
The Ministry has also confirmed its intention to link the
evolution of the maximum contribution base
to the pension revaluation criteria, that is, to the CPI, to which an additional annual increase of 1,154 points would be added between 2025 and 2050;
an increase that will be accompanied by an increase in the maximum pension.
"We must remember that this approach is a starting point,
open to new contributions
from the social dialogue table, which will meet in the coming days," the Ministry said on Monday night.
The social agents have received the proposal with
suspicion
, especially the
CEOE
, which has indicated that it finds the possibility of reaching an agreement difficult: "
From the outset we do not see that it could lead to an agreement.
In addition,
it comes so late
that it is not well understood the role of the social agents if it is to be approved within the established deadlines and without there being a political agreement", sources from the employers' association have pointed out, who have said that they will study the document.
The will of the Executive to automate an annual increase in the
maximum contribution bases
according to a percentage that will be extracted from adding 1,154 points to the annual average CPI will translate into an
increase in labor costs for companies,
since companies will have to apply the contribution rate on an increasingly higher basis for workers with higher salaries and, consequently, will pay more to Social Security.
This increase will also result in an
increase in the contribution made by workers
, although these, in the future, will be
offset by an increase in the maximum pension.
Precisely this
offset
(the maximum bases would be raised now, but the increase in these maximum pensions will not take place until those workers retire) is what will allow Social Security to
guarantee additional income when it is most needed
: now that it is going to As the
baby boom
generation begins to retire
, there will be extraordinary pressure on spending.
For next year it is expected that spending on pensions will exceed
190,000 million euros.
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