The ISSN pension deficit “is structural” and “is not correctable”

2023-05-31 03:05:00

The administrator of the Neuquén Social Security Institute (ISSN), Nestor Martinanalyzed yesterday that the deficit of the pension system of the province “is not correctable” because it responds to the aging of the retirement fund, although he evaluated that the contribution of new funds will allow him to alleviate the social work, which today contributes to the payment of assets at the cost of resenting the relationship with medical providers.

The official defined “structural” the situation of the organism and analyzed that still A measure such as raising the retirement age “would not have an immediate effect”. “You have to find financing funds,” she said.

Martin was invited yesterday at noon to speak to the Legislature’s Budget Committee that is dealing with Governor Omar Gutiérrez’s project to use part of the countercyclical fund to alleviate the cash deficit.

The ISSN administrator confirmed that the red projected by the end of the year is 27,841 million pesos and explained that today it is covered through three pillars: with the transfer of funds from the social work to the pension fund, with a increase in floating debt with suppliers and non-refundable contributions made by the Provincial Treasury.

raised the “weakness” that this generates for them to negotiate with medical unions and clinics and for this reason he evaluated that resolving the financing of the deficit would allow them to “be better off” when it comes to negotiating benefits.

As explained yesterday, the ISSN incorporates 140 net retirements per monththat is, it is the figure that results from the new real retirees versus those who die in the period. The average credit is 466,000 pesos and they recognized that there are “behaviors of the system that are generating deviations.”

For example, doctors who worked part-time all their lives but, shortly before entering retirement age, go full-time to retire with the best income; conductions with “friendly people” who grant positions or municipalities that raise employees to the highest rank two years before retirement, also to arrive with a higher salary.

Privilege retirements “do not move the ammeter”


Before the consultation of the deputy Andrés Blanco (PTS-FIT)Martin said that the exceptional regime for elective positions contribute only 0.59% to the general deficit. “Although we can analyze if they are fair or not or if they are morally equitable, they are not numbers that move the ammeter of the deficit of the box,” he said.

He considered the same regarding the debts that ISSN has with some municipalities or decentralized organizations. They detailed, without giving their own names, that currently one town owes 110 million for contributions, another owes 70 million and another 30 million, while there is a public body that has a debt of about 450 million for the same.

“For the numbers we move, not significant the debt of which or such municipality or entity, “he assured.


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