translated from Spanish: Minister Monckeberg for withdrawal of AFP funds: “It is wrong to think that at the expense of pensions we can solve other problems”

Labour Minister Nicolas Monckeberg again addressed the case of Professor Maria Ojeda, who appealed to the Constitutional Court (TC) to decide on the withdrawal of her pension fund in order to pay for her House. This was later that it was known that the Punta Arenas Court of Appeals made a second inapplicability request to the TC, which also requested the withdrawal of its planned funds.
“I know that there are many different needs in life and the important one is that we address each of them in Justice. What I don’t like, and sometimes I think it’s a little wrong, is to think that at the expense of pensions we can solve other problems that need to be addressed differently,” Monckeberg said.
The secretary of state added: “If I use pensions for other such legitimate problems, I am desisting one saint to cover up another. I do believe that the state, society, governments have to deal with all the problems with different policies, but not at the expense of older adults’ pensions and that aggravates the problem.”
Finally, the authority insisted that the Government’s priority is to implement pension reform, which would improve the pensions of 1.6 million pensioners.

Original source in Spanish