Lobato is committed to raising "with more intensity" the minimum and average pensions and especially the non-contributory ones

It proposes a system with part contributed by current contributions and another, capitalized by the worker throughout his working life.

MADRID, 11 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid and candidate to preside over the Community, Juan Lobato, is committed to raising the minimum and average pensions "with more intensity" and especially the non-contributory ones. In addition, it proposes that in the reform of the pension system, a mixed system should be adopted, one hundred percent public, in which future pensions are made up of the current contribution and the capitalization that the worker has accumulated throughout his career. Laboral life.

This is how he explained it in an interview with Europa Press, in which he has opted to raise "with more intensity the minimums and the averages and especially the non-contributory ones". But it also states that in this agreement to reform the pension system "it can be contemplated that the common number of pensions rises according to purchasing power" in order to maintain the consumption of the entire sector of pensioners but "being able to adapt an element that introduces equality between them". "I think that it would be interesting to be able to negotiate it," she adds.

Regarding whether the increase in the highest pensions should be the same as the increase in the rest of the pensions, Lobato affirms that the socialist governments have been making "many distinctions", both with Zapatero and currently, with the increase that has occurred of minimum and non-contributory pensions.

In this sense, he points out that "when it is said that the PSOE froze pensions" it does not explain that "it froze high pensions, but the minimum, medium and non-contributory pensions have risen". And he defends that this line is logical to ensure purchasing power due to the rise in prices.

Regarding the reform of the pension system, he has urged "to be brave and take firm steps." In his opinion, an intergenerational agreement must be produced between current pension recipients, in the short term, and those who hope to be recipients in the medium and long term.

In this sense, he explains that his proposal is to go to a mixed model, one hundred percent public, and not just pay-as-you-go like the current one, that is, "introducing elements of capitalization." Thus, he proposes that a part of the "necessary increase in contributions" that companies and workers will have to make go to capitalization "in such a way that each employee consolidates elements of his future pension."

According to Lobato, "this one hundred percent public mixed model would make the system robust and would generate important incentives for intergenerational agreement and participation by young people."

In this sense, he points out that what is being discussed now is how to raise the contribution of Social Security funds for future pensions. In this regard, he explains that he is going to go to a scheme of "one worker for each pensioner" in the next 10 or 15 years. "It is evident that in order to consolidate pensions, greater contributions will be needed in the business part and or in the contribution part of the worker himself," he points out.

And he adds that "those greater contributions can go as now to a pay-as-you-go system in which everything else contributed goes to current pensions, or that part that the model is going to ask to be contributed doesn't just go to a distribution model for current pensioners, but a part goes to the public system 100%, but in a capitalization part". In other words, that a part of this greater contribution that is being negotiated goes to a "capitalization of the contributor's own pension", so that it is consolidated over time.

In this way, when the worker retires, he will receive through the pay-as-you-go system the contribution of those who are working at that moment plus what he capitalized when he contributed more to the system during those years.

According to the socialist leader, this would be a "mixed model in which an incentive is generated for the younger generations to continue participating and betting on the pension model that we have in this country and it is the key to social cohesion and the future ". "There is a whole debate there, hopefully it bears fruit," he alleges.

Regarding the increase in the Minimum Wage, he explains that this is the area of ​​negotiation and he is "respectful" about it. In any case, he defends the increases in the SMI that have occurred in this Legislature against, he has said, "the doomsayers" who said that the increase in the Minimum Wage and the labor reform "were going to sink employment."

In fact, he points out that at this moment there is a historical figure of 20 million workers and "the vast majority are permanent, more than half of the new contracts are permanent." Therefore, he considers that these measures are "effective" from the economic point of view and not only from the social point of view.

Therefore, he defends raising the SMI as "logical and a good strategy" and continuing to equate it to European levels. And he alleges, for example, that this climb is essential for "people who work hard in Madrid, with how expensive it is to live."