The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, predicts that in February 2025 the new procedure will be in force for the recognition of coefficients that reduce the retirement age in activities presenting levels high levels of arduousness, toxicity, danger or unsanitary conditions.
“This regulation will provide security and expand rights (…) so that any group that considers itself entitled to early retirement can request it and resolve it objectively based on physically or mentally demanding situations, in particular from a certain age and of course from a gender perspective”, explained the minister about a measure agreed with social agents last July.
This was in response to PNV MP Maribel Vaquero’s question about when the government intends to keep its promise that people who have combined their work with caring for numerous dependents will be able to access a pension anticipated.
The Basque MP said that it was not clear to her whether this hypothesis would fall under the new procedure announced by the minister, who did not answer this question.
Saiz said in his speech that the care of dependent people is the responsibility of all administrations and “it is necessary to provide a firm, sustained and adapted response to the figure of the caregiver and the person being cared for.”
He also referred to the recent ELA law which “offers very favorable protection to caregivers of these people in situations of great dependency”.
The PNV deputy recalled, on the other hand, that the regulation which will allow people affected by asbestos to benefit from a benefit recognized by law is also pending.
“The victims of asbestos are also waiting today for a regulatory change which is not happening and which constitutes the essential step for them to be recognized by compensation approved by law in this Chamber of the Basque Parliament”, a- he explained.
