translated from Spanish: Goic for retirement of planned funds: Piny wants terminally ill to also “pay the bill”

Last Monday, President Sebastián Piñera referred to the debate on the withdrawal of planned funds in exceptional cases, such as terminal illnesses. The Representative, contradicting what was said earlier by the Minister of Labour, Nicolas Monckeberg, assured that his project that seeks to reform the pension system will include an article for this to be done.
The measure, however, has already found detractors, such as Senator Carolina Goic, who regretted that Piñera is asking the terminally ill to use their planned funds to bill for their treatments, ensuring that this should be done by the same state.
“It cannot be that a person or a family, in such a difficult situation, also asks him to pay the bill. I therefore ask that the fore-looking issue be discussed in earnest. And we call for a 20% increase for our current pensioners, for which poverty often falls today when they retire. Let’s make that effort. But also at the same time, let’s take care of the shortcomings of the health system,” he said.
On Piñera’s initiative, MS DC said she finds it terrible “that in the terminal stage you will be allowed to withdraw your funds when you no longer have life left to enjoy it.”
“I don’t know if the goal is to confuse the discussion. But clearly the focus has been lost. Let us take charge of the terminal stage of a person and be treated with the necessary dignity. And at the same time let’s increase the pensions,” he insisted.
Goic called on the AFPs to make proposals to improve a system which, in his words, has failed.
“I want to make a call to the AFPs. What effort did you put into this? Zero self-criticism for a system that failed to deliver on its pension promise. They told the workers that the funds are theirs and what people are doing is simply claiming them,” he said.

Original source in Spanish