This Wednesday at 9:30 in the Annex of the Chamber of Deputies, the Santa Fe Pension System Analysis Commission will meet for the first time. As confirmed to El Litoral by its president, Senator Rodrigo Borla, it will be a “constitutive” meeting and to define essentially organizational aspects.
“As you know – he recalled -, when modifying the original project, the Chamber of Deputies removed from the draft the regulations that had been stipulated in the Senate. Therefore, it is necessary to set parameters to coordinate the work that we will have ahead of us,” mentioned.
Likewise, he recalled that due to the same reforms introduced at the request of the legislators of the Lower House, the new commission will no longer have to prepare a bill on a possible pension reform, but rather “will draw up a kind of diagnosis and situation chart of the Retirement Fund, with a million-dollar and growing deficit”.
The Analysis Commission will be made up of six senators and eight deputies. Meanwhile, the Secretary of Social Security, Jorge Boasso, will represent the Executive Branch. Four places were also reserved for the main public unions in the province: UPCN, ATE, Amsafe and Festram. However, Borla told this newspaper that “as a matter of common sense”, the rest of the unions that have links with the state will also be invited.
According to him, the intention is to define in the coming weeks the specific topics that will be addressed, as well as the calls to other sectors that will make their contributions from a technical point of view. In this sense, he mentioned the public Universities of Santa Fe and Rosario,
The commission has an operating period according to the law of 45 days. During this period, it is intended to summon specialists and officials, both national and from other provinces, who have gone through pension discussions in their respective jurisdictions.
Actors who request to be heard will also be responded to. According to Borla, that group includes the College of Magistrates, which has already conveyed its concerns to members of the Commission.
The attention of the current administration has been focused on the situation of the province’s Retirement Fund, practically, since the mandate began. Since then, Executive Branch officials have warned about the growing deficit of an organization that increasingly requires more contributions from the Treasury to be able to sustain it. The current administration’s prediction is that if the matter is not taken into account and the current retirement regime is reformed, the system will collapse. But the objections of unionism and the discussion within Unidos led to the fact that the bill that originally spoke of the need for a reform, now only contemplates the objective of “analyzing” the Santa Fe pension system, within the term of 45 days.
