02/19/2020 - 9:58
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Less than 24 hours after the issue was installed, the national government lowered its tone to a possible rise in the retirement age, and although it insists that "it is a debate that at some point must be given," they said That is not under study.
"From @ansesgob we want to clarify that it is not planned to change the retirement age in the general regime," ANSeS head Alejandro Vanoli wrote on his Twitter account on Wednesday.
It had been the Minister of Labor, Claudio Moroni, who had discussed the issue and opened a door to discuss it, ensuring that the current ages for retirement (60 years women and 65 men) "come from many years ago and life expectations are growing. "
However, the official himself lowered his tone by ensuring that "there are currently no projects." "It is not a government agenda issue. I said that at some point that debate was going to have to take place. But there is no project, agenda or study. It was for a hypothetical question in the future," he told Radio Metro.
Alejandro Vanoli's tweet about the retirement age.
"The reality is that today the life expectancy we had, every year grows, so that the pension systems are going to have to adapt to that," explained the head of the Work portfolio, making axis in which the scheme Retirement is sustainable.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) usually deals with this type of modification, since it serves to relieve public accounts. "Argentina needs to improve the sustainability of the pension system," says an agency work. One of the keys to the IMF is to raise the retirement age: from 60 to 65 for women and from 65 to 67 for men.
" This kind of reforms requires a lot of tranquility, they are not done in an emergency, " Moroni told this newspaper.
But will there be a reform under his management or that of President Alberto Fernández? Clarín asked - It is off the agenda. I do not see it for this Government, or at least for this presidential period, he remarked.
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