The reform of the pensions enters these months in a new stage that we say comes characterized by the haste that have entered to him the Government offering “this trophy� to the call market.

The Commission of the Pact of Toledo, if normally the Executive imposes his accelerated proceeding, will finish its task in the next weeks with recommendations, that will count, creates and hoped, with enough particular votes of discord.

We bet to that the recommendations of this Commission will sufficiently contain a generic proposal on the convenience of extending the real age of retirement, that at the moment is of 63 years and 8 months, highest of the European Union, and that will allow the Government to give back in the law project that announces is going to present/display the Parliament before the year finishes, its proposal to lift to 67 years the legal age of retirement.

Also we are afraid that it will advise to increase the years of quote that are used for the calculation of the pension, possibly up to 20, instead of the 15 present ones. In addition, we are afraid that the majority of the Commission rejects that the update of the inflation of the quotes becomes until the month previous to the retirement request, and not only up to two years before since they come at present doing.

We have the hope, and we see a small possibility, that before the transient period that would be abriría for the total application of the 67 years like legal age of retirement, the abusive penalties are altered something very insufficiently present that from by life comes applying the system in the cases from anticipated retirements and, although, already underwent adjustment in the two last reforms.

There will be generic recommendation on the widow's pensions, in the sense already announced that this right of the workers happens to be considered like a benefit. It is probable that advance something in the percentage of the regulating bases of these pensions, that will allow, without hardly increasing the cost, that the State must make majors contributions in the calls “complements to minimums�.

In short, that as the saying goes: “The haste never were good advisers� and these recommendations will take accelerated us to a new reform, whose objective and execution will be the diminution of the cost in pensions.

Doubled Manuel

JUBIQUÉ? - FEMAS