“Pension funds do not touch”
“Pension funds do not touch”. The halt that the 8th congress of the National Federation of San Marino Pensioners of the CDLS addressed this morning to the Government and council groups. In front of the 65 delegates gathered at the Palace Hotel in Serravalle, the outgoing secretary Armando Stacchini defined a “clumsy attempt” that of the State Congress to “once again get its hands” on the first pillar Pension Fund through an inserted in the Finance Law presented at first reading last week. An amendment that authorizes the ISS Executive Committee to “withdraw liquidity from pension funds”. A few lines, Stacchini warns, which however “have enormous relevance” from a political, trade union and social point of view: “This article de facto delegitimizes the Board of Welfare, allowing a technical body, not representative of the social partners, of quality as he sees fit with money that is not his “. The union protest was immediate, he recalled, and the general secretaries of CDLS and CSdL asked for a meeting with the council group leaders. Against that led to the withdrawal of the amendment. “A first success that cannot make us sing victory, the real risk is that what came out the door will fall within, with the second reading of the Finance Law”. Hence the invitation to the Government and the majority and opposition advisers “to be careful not to get their hands on Pension Funds”. We help the elderly in need. Stacchini states that the National Federation of Pensioners of San Marino “fully shares” the proposal launched by the CDLS to create a specific fund to support non self-sufficient pensioners: “Fund financed with a modest contribution from all pensions, which must have legislative legitimacy, be controlled by the social partners and work alongside public welfare “. Another proposal is that of creating a “Helpdesk for listening”, because, explains the FNPS-CDLS secretary, “loneliness and social abandonment are the main enemies of the elderly population, real diseases that aggravate any clinical situation pre-existing “. For this it is necessary “a synergy between public and private, involving public welfare associations and those of the voluntary sector to create a real help desk available to all lonely people in difficulty”. The commitment to bring the third age closer to new technologies continues and after the courses on the use of smartphones and home banking promoted in recent years, the final congress motion “reconfirms the absolute digital need to start a literacy campaign aimed at to all citizens, paying particular attention to the older sections of the population “. Need shared by the general secretary of the CISL National Pensioners Federation, Piero Ragazzini, who spoke at the congress: “The Pandemic – he said – has caused an epochal change and the front of new technologies, the use of data and communication have entered forcefully in everyone’s life. Great attention must be paid to the issue of privacy and the use of data “. In line with what was proposed by the CDLS in relation to the Fund to help the elderly in difficulty, Ragazzini in relation to what was proposed in Italy urged us to include among the priorities also the adoption of a law that protects the non self-sufficient. Social security reform is another topic at the center of the congress debate. And also on this front a strong and clear message arrived: “We will not accept proposals – concluded Armando Stacchini – to link the pension allowance to ICEE, the economic indicator comparable to the Italian ISEE, nor will we be available to any hypothesis which links the check to the assets of the pensioner and his family. We do not share the approach that demonizes small savers and property owners who have built their future with sacrifice and honest work ”.
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