Colombia Mayor, the National Government’s commitment for several years to care for senior citizens who did not manage to retire and guarantee them decent living conditions in their retirement, will start a new payment cycle in the next few days and due to this it made a call to those enrolled in the program so that they can prepare all the requirements that are needed to be able to claim them.
Gustavo Bolívar, director of Social Prosperity, indicated that this is the ninth round of payments, corresponding to the month of September, which will be delivered at the various payment points from September 20th to October 3rd. It should be noted that to access this benefit, there is no need to pay or register, since priority is given thanks to the Sisben databases.
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“In this cycle, 1,641,336 beneficiaries of the program will receive the monetary transfer. In this, the entity invests more than 215 billion pesos. The delivery of the cycle will be available until Thursday, October 3. The program was strengthened this year to truly contribute to the reduction of inequality in the country,” said this official.
Bolívar noted that “in fact, those over 80 years old went from receiving 80,000 pesos to 225,000 pesos. Prosperidad Social hopes that, with the implementation of the pension reform, approved by Congress, this increase can be extended approximately to 3,000,000 elderly people, thanks to the Solidarity Pillar that is part of the reform.”
Greater Colombia
Courtesy DPS
Prosperidad Social took advantage of the announcement to invite beneficiaries to update their contact information to improve the program’s service. They can contact the free help lines in Bogotá: 601 379 48 40; from the rest of the country, 01-8000-95-1100; or through the program’s links in the municipal mayor’s offices.
“Each participant will be sent a text message, notifying them the date and amount to be received. Balance of the eighth payment cycle: The eighth payment cycle of Colombia Mayor was carried out from August 16 to 30. More than 1.6 million active beneficiary senior citizens in the country had scheduled payments, through the payment operator SuperGIROS and allies with presence throughout the national territory,” added the Director of Social Prosperity.
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According to this entity, the accounts of the last round of payments achieved a payment effectiveness of 96%, a figure that for them demonstrates the commitment of the National Government to the poorest people and the social commitment of the Casa de Nariño.
“The Colombia Mayor program is one of the measures adopted by the National Government in favor of discriminated or marginalized groups in order to protect those people who, due to their economic, physical or mental condition, find themselves in circumstances of manifest weakness, as are the elderly beneficiaries of this program,” concluded Gustavo Bolívar.
Colombia Mayor – Older adults.
Courtesy – DPS
To enroll in the Colombia Mayor program, interested parties must be Colombian, have lived in the country for the last ten years, be three years younger than the retirement age (54 years for women and 59 for men) and lack sufficient income. Interested parties must be in levels A, B or C1 of SISBÉN IV. The process is carried out at the mayor’s office or at the Local Subdirectorates in Bogotá.
Once the senior citizen presents his/her physical ID, compliance is verified. of the requirements and is entered into the program’s information system. The information is cross-checked with external databases to ensure that the person does not receive a pension or income. The places are assigned in strict order of priority, according to the assigned shifts, since each municipality has a limit of beneficiaries.
