Teachers’ pensions have improved under the Fourth Transformation governments: Martí Batres / @martibatres @ISSSTE_mx >>>

#ISSSTE.- The director general of the Institute of Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), Martí Batres Guadarrama, highlighted in President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s morning press conference, «The People’s Morning Press Conference,» that the conditions of the pension system have changed under the Fourth Transformation administrations, benefiting teachers and state workers. In effect, the reform to the ISSSTE Law promoted by Felipe Calderón in 2007 has been gradually repealed.

«Why are teachers so outraged by the 2007 Law? Because it took away their pensions, the amount. What did teachers tell us in many meetings? ‘I’m going to retire with 4,000 pesos, I’m not going to live on that.’ That was the theme: Calderón’s 2007 reform plummeted teachers’ pensions. Now, several changes have occurred. (…) We are now in a different situation; And, in practice, as the President says, the 2007 Law is being gradually repealed,» he stated.

In the presence of the Secretary of Public Education, Mario Delgado Carrillo, Martí Batres explained that one of the fundamental changes proposed for teaching staff is the creation of the Pension Fund for Well-being during the final stage of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration, which allows teachers to retire with the equivalent of their earned salary at the time of retirement.

«A Pension Fund for Well-being was created that compensates teachers whose Afore (an Afore) only has enough to retire with 4,000 pesos and compensates them, adding another 12,000 pesos, if necessary, to retire with the full salary they were earning at the time of retirement. «It’s a fundamental change. Why? Because it affects the lives of teachers,» he said.

Furthermore, he emphasized that President Claudia Sheinbaum froze the minimum retirement age for workers under the tenth transitional pension system. This pauses the sustained annual increase in the retirement age, as established by the 2007 reform, and it remains at 58 for men and 56 for women.

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