The president of Colpensions, Jaime Dussán, lit a new controversy in the pension debate after ensuring that private pension funds have undue affiliates to more than 45,000 high -risk workers, including firefighters, firefighters, firefighters, firefighters, firefighters, firefighters, firefighters, firefighters, firefighters, firefighters, firefighters, Guardians of prisons and miners, who by law should be in the public regime.
“Private funds stayed with high -risk people in a mistake with the pickery of the government. High risk people cannot be affiliated with private funds, ”said Dussán.
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According to its calculations, this situation generates a debt close to the $ 9 billion, which Colpensiones claims to strengthen their finances and comply with the obligations of the solidarity pillar of the pension reform. However, in certain sectors, this announcement has been taken as a new expropriation announcement in the pension system.
The debt and the government letter
The official explained that the Ministers of Finance and Labor have already sent a letter to pension fund managers (AFP) requesting that these resources be returned to the public regime.
The pension reform is still under review of the Constitutional Court.
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“The ministers already sent a letter to the private funds saying: Return me for money to Colpensiones,” said Dussán, who added that this week he will hold a meeting with the ministers and with the financial superintendent, César Ferrari, to analyze the measures that force the money to reach the entity.
Thus, if the return was completed, colpensions would have a key liquidity at a time when the general budget of the nation is under strong fiscal pressure, which would focus mainly on the subsidies that the State must deliver to the elderly, when the reform enters into force.
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Similarly, the president of the entity said that with the $ 9 billion the load on the budget would be reduced, the financing of the solidarity Pilar would be guaranteed and the payment of the subsidy could be strengthened to about three million older adults in a situation of vulnerability, who receive a monthly bonus of $ 300,000.
He even pointed out that the possibility would open that this bonus has an automatic adjustment Every year with the increase in the minimum wage or with inflation (CPI), as proposed by President Gustavo Petro.
The pension reform is still under review of the Constitutional Court.
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“If I have those nine billion in Colpensiones, they will help me to reduce resources from the Nation’s general budget, contribute to the solidarity pillar and pay the three million old people who never received the pension bonus of three hundred thousand before,” Dussán said.
The background of the claim
The debate is not less and arises in the midst of the implementation of the pension reform approved in 2024, which establishes a pillars system, in which the solidarity pillar will be financed with resources public and destined to support those who never managed to quote enough for a pension.
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There is also the contributory pillar, in which Colpensiones manages the contributions up to three minimum wages and private funds manage the surplus. In this scheme, the dispute over the affiliation of high -risk workers charges special relevance.
Meanwhile, Jerome Sanabria, spokeswoman for the collective not with my savingshe questioned the statements of Jaime Dussán and warned that the resources handled by private funds are not from the government, but of the workers, highlighting that “here there is a basic error: money in the funds is owned by affiliates, not colpensions or the State. Pretending to transfer it by force is to violate confidence in individual savings”.
The pension reform is still under review of the Constitutional Court.
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Sanabria stressed that high -risk workers, such as firefighters, miners or prisons, must receive adequate protection, but without the current legal framework being unknown and insisted that “we agree that these people are guaranteed fair conditions, but it is not valid to load the solution on the shoulders of savings of millions of Colombians who trusted in the private regime.”
The member of NO with my savings also warned of the fiscal and social impact of this type of decisions and as he said, the discussion must occur in Congress and not in closed door meetings, concluding that “if the government needs more resources to finance the solidarity pillar, it must do so with serious reforms, not appropriating pension savings. This sends a lousy sign of legal and institutional certainty. ”
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Although Colpensiones claims the $ 9 billion, the process will not be simple, since regulatory and possibly judicial decisions will be required to define whether the AFPs must transfer those resources to the public regime. For now, Dussan’s pronouncement increases the tension between the government and private funds, which had already expressed their objections to pension reform and the massive transfer of contributors to colpensions.
Daniel Hernández Naranjo
Portfolio journalist
