After the presentation of an alternative project to the fifth withdrawal of the AFPs, proposed by the Government of Gabriel Boric, this Tuesday; the general manager of the Association of Pension Fund Insurers, Contanza Bollman, criticized the measure through a statement, indicating that it seems to them “an improvised reaction to the discussion of the fifth withdrawal”.
The limited withdrawal Executive’s proposal includes exclusive withdrawals with social security criteria, which will allow withdrawals of pension funds for: payment of alimony, carry-over debts for basic services, savings for subsidies, as well as credit delinquency mortgage.
Bollman referred to this, pointing to it as an “improvised reaction” after the fifth withdrawal was not approved in the Constitution Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
“Converting pension savings owned by workers into the ‘Servipag’ of overdue debts threatens the legitimate demand of millions of Chilean men and women to have better pensions,” he said in the statement.
“The initiative presented today to Congress poses an operational complexity for pension fund administrators. This, due to the number of institutions involved and the amount of data needed to validate between them”, he mentioned.
“If no changes are made to this initiative, it is impossible to implement it in a timely manner,” he added.
Along these lines, “we pension fund administrators hope to be heard, because this directly concerns our efforts to provide adequate care to our members and to improve pensions,” concluded Bollmann.
