San Marino. Gianluca Montanari (CDLS): “We will not accept penalizing measures on the pension reform”
“That of pensions is a reform with a high social value, we will not accept penalizing measures”.
The message that the Secretary of the Democratic Confederation of San Marino workers, Gianluca Montanarilaunched by the confederal council which met this morning in Domagnano (Republic of San Marino).
“Council that also took stock of the announced departure of the path of labor market and tax reforms (Igr). Strong criticism also regarding the growing inefficiencies in the health sector ”, reports the note from the CDLS.
“In the meantime, we take note – underlined Montanari – of the presentation of the presentation at first reading of the pension reform and the reform of the labor market, of which the first discussion meeting on the articles will take place on Thursday, while for that of the Igr we still await the opening of the negotiation process. The scenario we are facing is not easy: the reforms are fundamental but must be carried out without forcing and with, through a close confrontation that points to shared solutions. There is a delay across the board and the greatest concerns are currently concentrated on the pension reform, the only initiation in respect of which is the comparison, on which the most systemic points have not yet arrived ”.
Going into detail, the secretary Montanari highlighted that there is still a lot to discuss and deepen with regard to the pension reform: “There is a need for data, for simulations on working hypotheses, it is necessary to invest more time in the negotiation phases”.
In the last meeting, by the Democratic Confederation of San Marino workers, simulations were requested on the articles of the new reform that affect the calculation of the post-reform social security allowance, “this in order to accurately assess which rate to produce, which translated into other words, it means how long a worker retires after a hypothetical 40 years of payments “.
The key points currently under discussion, which “see the trade union organizations involved”, concern the raising of the requirement to access the pension from the current quota of 100 to 103 (sum of age and contributions), the increase in the percentage of contribution, the contribution from the State Budget to compensate for the imbalance of the Pension Fund and the reform of the second Fondiss pillar. With regard to the increase in the quota from 100 to 103, for the CDLS, “it supports a sustainable gradual increase in the quota over several years and above all, avoiding the creation of problems of lengthening access for those who are now close to the pension goal ( the so-called ‘staircase’) “.
“We acknowledge – Montanari specified – that progress has been made with respect to the first proposals, but in our opinion there is still ample room for improvement. Any penalty percentages for those who have not fully matured the requisites are already much more contained than what is expected today and now start, as is the case today, with a minimum of 3 years of contributions “.
The draft of the pension reform under discussion shows a directive that involves the realignment of benefits downwards: this approach is strongly opposed by the confederal council of the CD: “Using the trick deriving from a series of penalties and reductions for the periods prior to the reform of 2011, with the increase of the already existing solidarity contribution, as well as through the extension to the entire working life of the reference period for calculating the pension, a sort of ‘retroactive’ reform will be implemented which will almost certainly materialize a strong lowering of the pension yield for future pensioners who have contribution periods prior to the reforms of 2011 and 2005 ”.
Finally, “the reform of the supplementary pension fund (Fondiss) will be decisive”. On this point, Montanari invited the will of the government to intervene in this area thanks to the delegation approved with the budget adjustment: “For the CDLS, the second pillar has always been a key element to be strengthened and relaunched so that it integrates and supports pensions , providing for a governance and rules rules for the investments of the new accumulated funds, which want to obtain returns in line with the Italian pension funds to guarantee a real integration to the allowances deriving from the first pillar ”.
In view of the start of the confrontation with the government on the tax reform, the press release reports that “the Confederal of the CDLS underlined the importance of council rigid anti tax avoidance and evasion rules and related penalties for the ‘crafty Igr'”. It will also be “essential to keep all deductions / deductions that have a strong impact, such as medical, dental and diagnostic expenses, dental and health prostheses, expenses related to school fees, assistance to the infirm and strengthened persons relating to the fees of nursery schools and babysitters and expenses related to the disability or incapacity of elderly people “. For the Confederal CDLS, “Smac will therefore be enhanced as a tool to fight tax avoidance and evasion, safeguarding the ‘no tax area’ and the relative mechanism for calculating salaries and pensions”.
Another point in the foreground: the future of San Marino healthcare. And here the Confederal Council of the CDLS “fully supports” the surgical stance made known in recent days by the National Federation of San Marino pensioners on the robot: “It must be clarified once and for all – said Montanari – that the democratic Confederation is not exactly contrary to the ‘innovation in the health and scientific fields, nor in the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and tools. But it is essential to set priorities, also given the scarcity of economic resources that are continually reminded us by government officials. We must allocate the available resources to strengthen the ISS staff, reorganize and strengthen parties and services, be ready for a possible, even if undesirable, resurgence of Covid in the coming autumn months. For the democratic Confederation, public resources must be directed to these ambitious ones and not to improbable instruments of disproportionate cost and extremely uncertain economic returns “.
To this end, the note reads, “the confederal council requires the top government and top management of the ISS to postpone the spending of 3 million euros for the surgical ‘robot’, expenditure approved by the Great and General Council at the budget adjustment, and to allocate this figure for the immediate relaunch of San Marino healthcare in terms of human resources, improvement, guarantees and efficiency of services “.
“It is absolutely not admissible that, in an economic context that requires great attention to non-essential expenses, such a significant expense is authorized without it being supported by an in-depth and detailed technical, financial and financial project that reports the simulations with respect to costs / benefits, ancillary and recurring maintenance costs, operator training costs and equipment depreciation costs, as already requested by the health consultancy of the ISS; we do not believe that in the face of all this there is the economic convenience or the catchment area that justifies the purchase ”, Montanari finally said.