With time running out and the deadline for its entry into force getting closer, the pension reform continues to attract the attention of the control entities in the country, who, concerned about the lack of progress, have begun to require the entities responsible for the process to know how everything is progressing.
This is the case of the Attorney General’s Office, which this week requested Colpensiones and the Financial Superintendence, a report on the status of the different areas of care for members, pensioners and those carrying out procedures to obtain their pension.
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“Less than eight months before the pension reform approved by Congress (Law 2381 of 2024) comes into effect, through which the comprehensive social protection system for old age, disability and death of common origin is established and other provisions are issued, the Attorney General’s Office continues to warn about the impossibility of Colpensiones to assume the technological and operational challenges of this implementation,” they indicated.
The calls from the Public Ministry come at a time when within this union there are several alerts due to the obstacles that some members are encountering to benefit from the transition regime, due to legal loopholes in that remained in the text approved by the Legislature, which until now have begun to be corrected.
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Given this, they warned that it is necessary to “guarantee that the double advisory process is carried out in an agile and timely manner for the members”, taking into account that the damming results in judicial processes that end up wearing down, not only the pension system, but also the judicial.
“As has been stated in multiple requirements, the term for the entry into force of the law makes its implementation absolutely impossible, because Colpensiones does not have the capabilities to assume the new functions and the volume of affiliates that it will receive,” they added.
Among the specific requests of the control body is to know in detail the current status of the administrative procedures and the management of the various resources, within the framework of the preventive monitoring that it has carried out on the entity since 2012 by order of the Constitutional Court.
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“Among the requirements made are: number of Petitions, Complaints and Claims – PQR; corrections to work histories requested between January and November of this year, specifying how many have been responded to and how many are pending a response within the legal term,” they explained.
The Attorney General’s Office also requested information on the reasons why Colpensiones has limited or blocked the receipt of requests related to work histories sent by the Pension Fund Administrators, AFP, and what are the legal arguments that support this decision when it comes to requests of affiliates to the system.
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“This control body requested information on the implementation of digital strategies, data automation and technological modernization of current systems, within the framework of the execution of the operational and technological action plan,” says the entity’s statement.
It should be noted that the requests were not only for the administrator of the public pension system, since the Financial Superintendence was also required to provide a report on the monitoring carried out on Colpensiones and the instructions given in relation to these issues.
The pension reform will come into effect from July 1, 2025, however, there are already some deadlines that are being met, especially for those who will choose the private fund that will manage their pension savings through the Administrators of the Complementary Component of Individual Savings (Accai)in addition to the issuance of two decrees to regulate the issue.
