María Teresa Vásquez is a woman from Medellín who lives in commune three and who, thanks to a call to her home landline, was able to learn the wonderful news of herBeing the first pensioner in the country with the help of savings from Periodic Economic Benefits (BEPS), a program managed by Colpensiones
This woman, who had a strong life story, told Semana Magazine that once she was of legal age she began to look for a job until she found a small position attending a bakery located in El Poblado “I lasted three years there,” she commented. , and although he does not remember his salary, He says that he could save something, so that he could have the happiness of retiring one day.
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This woman always proved to be brave, and after leaving her trades in the bakery, she decided to venture into a small business of empanadas, which, Although it was harder for him, he made the decision to continue saving a little house to be able to achieve his goals.
Thus, and already with great responsibilities, he separated one or another coin to make his savings to the BEPS, and added between 5,000 and 30,000 pesos to make their contributions, mentioning that they received great help from the Government, referring to the economic benefits that are based on encouraging people to save resources at the time the pension is given, for which they contribute 20% of what you save.
However, despite the fact that she never gave up hope, María Teresa was worried that she would not make it. Since the model of subsidies to obtain income for the rest of her life mentions that when the citizen reaches the age established for retirement, he can transform your savings into an income that you will receive every two months, which would not be enough to be a pension.
But this woman never lost faith and made the decision to contribute to continue adding to the savings I had in BEPS. It was thus that, through various sources of savings, he was able to obtain his pension from the current legal minimum wage.
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With a total of more than 3 million pesos in the BEPS with what he was saving, plus the rule that governs in the country in which that can be converted into quoted weeks, María Teresa consigned a total of 116 weeks which were the ones he needed to retire. For this reason, she is the most lively woman and she achieved her goal, she will now be able to spend a very calm time next to her loved ones
