The owner of the Address General of Retirements and Pensions in charge of the State (DGJP), Juan Rosaassured that the budget for pensions and retirements It will be 54 billion pesos in the year 2025 and that the inclusion of more than 53 thousand is expected new requests.
“For the granting and payment of the pensions existing, the budget for next year there are about 54 billion pesos, both to make up for what are the pensions that we have like pensions new to be granted,” said the official.
Rosa explained that, from August 2020 to December of this year 2024, some 133,678 have been incorporated new pensions in its various modalities, counting the 59,703 pensions supportive delivered in the last four years.
“Are people that need and we are covering, in a certain way, a social debt,” he pointed out.
Rosa predicted that the delivery of 53 thousand is projected new pensions the coming year, including 20 thousand new pensions supportive for 2025with an amount of 6,000 pesos each, destined to people who live in conditions of extreme poverty, with an income equal to or less than 50% of the Public Minimum Wage, “that is, equal to or less than five thousand pesos.”
“There are 53 thousand (pensions) projected in its various modalities, among pensions supportive, pensions to the National Police, pensions by seniority in service and special ones, in addition to self-insurance and those of the former Dominican Social Security Institute (IDSS),” he commented.
The incumbent explained that this new demand “depends on the requests let them do the people“and that, normally, every year budget 10% is added compared to the previous year, highlighting that the waiting time has also been reduced.
He indicated that upon arrival at the DGJP, some 31 thousand were pending processing. pensions of the IDSSincluding sugarcane growers and private employees, a process that has already been refined and resolved.
“A part that was inert with more than 31 thousand requests without complying, as is the case of the old Social Security, there we have granted more than 33 thousand pensions. That is to say, we exceeded those that were to be attended to and subtracted those who had already died and the new requests have been attended to,” he clarified.
moment of transition
In Rosa’s opinion, “we are in a moment of transition towards the new system pensions and that it will reach its full potential in a few years, already in the year 2033, which is when it turns its first 30 years and that people could through the Fund Administrator Pensions (AFP), through the individual capitalization system, obtain a pension, an honorable pension, a pension that allows you to finish your last years of life worthily“.
“We have multiple needs and the solutions are limited,” he added.
When questioned about the amounts of the pensionswhich on many occasions are precarious, Rosa defended herself and said that in cases of people “They don’t have enough to live on or medicine, that’s why 59,703 people have been given pensions supportive and more than 18 thousand pensions special to certain social groups”.
He official He spoke after the celebration of the thanksgiving mass for the 18th anniversary of the DGJP.
Among the goals for 2025 He cited continuing to work efficiently, advancing the Zero Bureaucracy plan and offering more resources on the digital platform, to which requests for “pension certification, non-pension certification, check your pension and payment history” were already included.
Likewise, he mentioned the expansion of services at GOB Points and the extension of regional offices in Santiago and La Romana, as well as Madrid and New York internationally.
