The Minister of Labor, María José ZaldívarHe noted that he is not surprised that more than 7 million 700 thousand Chileans have requested to withdraw a percentage of their pension savings in the first week in force of the law, because this “was absolutely wide“.
In this sense, he expressed his objections to this nature of the reform, although he appreciated the increase in consumption that is projected, since families will have a greater amount of cash.
“There may indeed be an impulse in purchases, hopefully in staples and we don’t see images like the ones we saw in countries like Peru, that one saw people dating plasmas of stores “, he whipped in an interview with Radio La Clave, recalling the similar case of the neighboring country.
However, he recognized the needs of many households due to the pandemic: “A person who today has no income, most likely has the children’s school unpaid, has to really be going through such a hard winter – like this one – with rationalization of heating, of electricity. clearly is very deep pain that we are living as a country. “
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