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27AprApril 27, 2023

Jamaica. Minister of Labor announces increases to NIS benefits

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Karl Samuda, has announced significant increases for National Insurance Scheme (NIS) pensioners and other contributors to the scheme. Samuda made the announcement on Wednesday during his contribution to the Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives. He said the old age or retirement, the invalidity and the widows and widowers pensions will move from $3,400 to $4,200 per week, a 23 per cent increase for those receiving full-rate pensions. At the same time, pensioners who...

April 27, 2023

NewsJamaica, Social Security

27AprApril 27, 2023

US Senate panel advances Biden’s labor secretary choice, opposed by gig worker apps

A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday voted along party lines to advance President Joe Biden's nominee for U.S. labor secretary, Julie Su, to the full Senate for what will be a close vote due to heavy opposition by Republican lawmakers and business groups worried about regulation of the gig economy. The Democrat-led Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted 11-10 to approve Su, a civil rights lawyer and former California labor commissioner who has served as a deputy labor...

April 27, 2023

NewsLabor Market, Regulation, US

27AprApril 27, 2023

Senegalese veterans to return home after French government u-turn on pensions

Eight veteran Senegalese riflemen will be finally returning home for good this Friday, after President Emmanuel Macron's government in January lifted a six-month residency condition for their military pension. For 95-year-old Yoro Diao, after nearly 20 years of living thousands of miles from his family, he is happy to leave his tiny studio in a suburb of Paris, to return to his family. “This is a victory, a second victory after the war. We are allowed to go home while receiving...

April 27, 2023

NewsPension Payout, Regulation, State Pensions

26AprApril 26, 2023

Chile. Superintendente de pensiones advierte que sexto retiro dejaría a 5,5 millones de personas sin saldo

Osvaldo Macías manifestó que con los tres retiros de fondos aprobados anteriormente, 1,5 millones de afiliados quedaron sin ahorros, por lo que un nuevo giro incrementaría en 4 millones de personas más. Este martes, la Comisión de Constitución de la Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados retomó la revisión de proyectos que buscan permitir un nuevo retiro de fondos de las AFP. La instancia acordó recibir en su sesión de hoy a diversos actores relevantes, para así conocer sus impresiones y posturas...

April 26, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasChile, Retiro de Fondos

26AprApril 26, 2023

¿Qué implicaciones tiene la reforma pensional del Gobierno Nacional para Colombia?

En Colombia, se requiere una reforma pensional con el propósito de mejorar los problemas a los que se enfrenta hoy el sistema, como lo son: la baja cantidad de adultos pensionados (falta de cobertura), los subsidios que se le otorgan a quienes no los necesitan (inequidad) y el déficit pensional que registra el régimen público de pensiones (insostenibilidad). Por tal razón, en los últimos meses y, especialmente, tras la radicación del proyecto de reforma pensional, el pasado 22 de marzo...

April 26, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasColombia, Reforma de Pensiones

26AprApril 26, 2023

Perú. SBS aprueba normas complementarias para acceder a pensión mínima en el sistema privado de pensiones

La Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP (SBS) informó que aprobó las normas complementarias para la implementación de la pensión mínima objetivo (PMO) en el Sistema Privado de Pensiones (SPP), en cumplimiento de lo establecido en el Decreto Supremo N°065-2023-EF, que contiene el reglamento de la ley que crea las pensiones mínimas y promueve los aportes voluntarios alternativos con fin previsional (Ley N° 31670). A través de un comunicado, la SBS indicó que los afiliados al SPP pueden acogerse voluntariamente...

April 26, 2023

Noticias, NoticiasPensión Mínima, Perú

26AprApril 26, 2023

Higher living costs force Americans to cut back on retirement savings, survey says

Bigger chunks of our paychecks are going to pay the bills as we juggle higher rent or housing costs, larger monthly payments on cars, and ongoing high prices on food, clothing and airfares. Who wouldn't be tempted to dial back how much money you set aside from each paycheck toward retirement? Throw cash in a 401(k) plan? When you need to make a car payment of $700 a month or higher? Or your rent just went up by $250 a...

April 26, 2023

NewsInflation, US

26AprApril 26, 2023

UN Pension Fund back on track after 2022 as low costs pay off

The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, UNJSPF, is clawing back 2022 losses with assets under management currently valued at $82 billion and the fund experiencing a positive return of 5 per cent so far this year. Robust returns between 2019 and 2021 had swelled the UNJSPF portfolio by 30 per cent to a record high in its 75-year history to over $91.5 billion by the end of 2021. Come 2022, and the ravages of high inflation and ensuing high...

April 26, 2023

NewsPension Management

26AprApril 26, 2023

Pension fund PGGM warns on dangers of social greenwashing

The principal director for responsible investments at PGGM Investments, the investment manager for the €277 billion ($306 billion) Dutch pension fund, has pointed to the continued challenges associated with measuring the social impact of investments, highlighting the reputational dangers of social greenwashing. “You encounter liberal definitions. There is some inflation in the terms that we want to be very cautious about. You don’t want to overstate [investors’] social contributions,” said Hans Op’t Veld, principal director for responsible investments at the...

April 26, 2023

NewsClimate crisis, ESG, Investment

26AprApril 26, 2023

Social protection and response to covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean: Innovations in registration and payment systems

By Nurth Palomo, Luis Vargas Faulbaum, Anna Carolina Machado, Camila Rolon and Fábio Veras Soares, Monica Rubio, Florencia Alejandre & Gerardo Escaroz The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the foundations of the economy and provoked devastating social effects in all the countries in the world, being Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) one of the most affected regions. As of mid-March 2021, there were 37 million reported cases in the region and a staggering 1,275,567 deaths, equivalent to...

April 26, 2023

Books, Books, Payout2022, Latin America, Social Protection, Technology

April 2023