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The pension contribution is a right that all Colombians have to guarantee savings that allow them to protect themselves after working retirement age. But, What happens when a person dies before having access to this financial benefit? When a member dies, his beneficiaries can access a survivor's pension, as long as the requirements established by law are met. The survivor pension It is a benefit of the general system of social security in pensions whose purpose is to protect the family nucleus of the member or pensioner from the impact on economic income that his death may mean. (See: Pension…

The pension reform initiative continues to advance in its process in Congress. In fact, the bill has already passed its first test in the Seventh Committee of the Senate and has three more debates ahead of it. Although the text was produced in its first debate with few changes, among the key points that were addressed in the discussion, it will be possible to make some adjustments in the conditions to access the transition regime.(See: Pension reform: this was what happened in the first debate). Traditionally, in the configuration of pension-type projects The transition guidelines with the current system are…

José Antonio Ocampo, former Minister of Finance and Public Credit of the government of President Gustavo Petrospoke about the approval of the pension reform paper in the first debate, mentioning that, of the social reform package, it is the one with the greatest viability Through an opinion column for EL TIEMPO, Ocampo urged the importance and points to highlight about the bill, as well as the work that took place in its construction by various government entities.(Pension reform: changes that the transition regime will have)."(...) the original project resulted from excellent joint work between the Ministry of Labor and the…

On June 6, 2023 the constitutional court declared unconstitutional article 9 of Law 797 and will extend that women will no longer have to contribute 1,300 weeks to retire, but that it would be reduced to 1,000 weeks. (See: Women will no longer have to contribute 1,300 weeks to retire). With this decision it It supposes that now the Congress of the Republic should take advantage of the ruling to legislate considering the gender approach raised by the Court. For this, the Legislature will have until December 31, 2025.(See: What should Congress do after ruling on women's pension). In this…