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Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, p. twenty-one
Active and retired workers from the public sector demonstrated yesterday in front of the headquarters of the Judicial Power of the Federation, in the south of Mexico City, to denounce that several courts have rejected the requests for protection that they have presented against the collection of the fee. of variable interest calculated in units of measurement and updating (UMA), which has impacted on the mortgage loans of Fovissste and whose debts – they said – have become unpayable
.
Alonso Castillo Osuna, legal representative of seven groups that group those affected, specified that the act claimed also implies declaring unconstitutional article 185 of the law of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (Issste), which obliges the annual update of the balances of the loans listed in UMA, in a proportion similar to inflation, which is estimated to close at 8 percent.
Likewise, the restructuring of the housing loans they acquired is requested, added Tania Bonilla and Tere Hernández, from the Alliance of Health Workers and Public Employees.
The financing debt, they assured, has tripled because in addition to the ordinary annual interest of 4 to 6 percent (with which the financing is acquired), the UMA update must also be paid.
The balances are readjusted every February, and are equivalent to an increase in interest of between 50,000 and more than 100,000 pesos, depending on each financing, Bonilla said. In addition, a concept called past due debt
that was not notified to the accredited.
Fovissste has more than 915 thousand current credits, of which 15.7 percent (143 thousand 528) corresponds to retired people, and 70.7 percent (647 thousand 375) to active workers.
Bonilla explained that the credits contain the item of annual updates, but considered there is a lack of information
. He estimated that excessive charges affect more than a million workers and retirees, considering those who have already paid the loan with interest, but have not released their deeds.
Castillo Osuna pointed out that in some amparos the authority does not want to know about these matters and they send the files to labor courts, who do accept the jurisdiction, but end up rejected.
With banners that read The UMAS are a crime, they impoverish my salary and my family
the members of the Alliance of Health Workers and the Collective of Workers of the Ministry of Public Education, among others, demanded that the courts apply the same criteria for the protections requested.
