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The National Social Security Council (CNSS) approved an important measure that guarantees the right to a pension for hundreds of workers from the Electricity Distribution Companies (EDES) and other public institutions whose National Taxpayer Registry (RNC) is listed as private, even though the State owns 50% or more of their shareholding.
With this decision, the CNSS modified paragraph I of resolution No. 572-07, allowing these workers to transfer from the Individual Capitalization Account (CCI) to the Distribution System, in order to access a state pension.
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The Distribution Pension System (Law 379-81) is a social security model in which the contributions of active workers directly finance the pensions of current retirees, that is, there is no individual savings account, but a common fund administered by the State. Whereas in the Pension System that operates through an Individual Capitalization Account (ICA) (Law 87-01) is a model in which each worker accumulates their own contributions in a personal savings account for their retirement. That money is invested during their working life to generate returns and finance their future pension. The measure directly responds to multiple requests submitted by affiliates through the General Directorate of Information and Defense of Affiliates (DIDA), the Ombudsman, and the Movement for Pensions of Public Servants (MOPESEP), who reported that their transfer requests had been rejected for appearing with a private RNC, despite having worked for years for state-owned companies. The CNSS reaffirmed that this decision strengthens the protection of workers' rights and complies with the mandates of the Constitution on Social Security, human dignity, and guarantees for the elderly.
