translated from Spanish: Sebastián Piñera defended the pension reform: “Will improve the pension from the first day”

the President Sebastian Pinera defended the interim reform, which will be entered into Congress in the coming days, in the framework of the presentation of the plan of social development for the region de Los Rios”. “A very important issue is the pension reform that will improve the pension from the first day in it is approved and authorized two and a half million older adults of the three million pensioners in our country” said the President as EMOL.ademas, the President added that “there are some who falsely say that welfare reform is going to take 40 years to take effect. That is not true, the pension reform will take effect from the first day, improving pension and the quality of life for two and a half million pensioners Chileans of the three that we currently have.” In the same context, he said that “the reform will strengthen every day and that million and a half of Chileans received basic pension or solidary pension contribution will experience a significant reset”. Finally, the representative stressed that the project involves a fiscal investment of 3 thousand 500 million dollars and called on parliamentarians “which apuremos the most approval, because there are two and a half millions of Chileans who are waiting for urgent improvement the pension”.

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