Colombia’s social security chief took funds for poor farmers first, and coronavirus relief funds next?
Ten years after the family of Colombia’s social security chief received $200,000 meant for...
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Colombia court orders citizens to take care of elderly family members
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that people are obligated to provide assistance...
Colombia gets unemployment benefit
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos Tuesday signed a law to financially assist workers...
Colombian finance body attacks pensions, proposes higher retirement age
The president of the National Association of Financial Institutions warns about high costs of public pensions in Colombia and proposes an increase in the retirement age and lower pension payments. In the midst of ongoing fiscal...
Arrest warrants issued to 30 Colombians for social security fraud
The president of Colombia’s social security program issued arrest warrants for 30 individuals accused of extorting as much as $1.13 billion from social security. Silvia Elena Ramirez, who directs the national social...
Colombia’s informal labor rate drops to 50.8%
The percentage of people working in Colombia’s urban informal sector has dropped to 50.8% in March-May from 51.4% the same period last year, Colombia’s statistics bureau reported Tuesday. According to statistic...
Social Security weighed down with 75,000 pending claims
Colombia’s Institute of Social Security (ISS) is bogged down with 75,000 claims from customers totalling over $550,000 reported the entity’s president, Silvia Helena Ramirez. Plaintiffs allege irregularities in the...
88% of workers have social security, 30% have pension plans
Statistics show that for the period January – March 2011, 88.5% of Colombian workers were enrolled in the state social security program, while only 30.2% were involved in a pension program, the national statistics...
31% government subsidies go to upper classes
Nearly one-third of Colombian government subsidies for the poor end up in the pockets of the upper class, the country’s development agency said Thursday. In a report, development agency Fedesarollo said that 40% of the...
Former airliner employees threaten suicide
Former employees of Colombian airliner AeroCondor threaten to kill themselves if they don’t get paid their pensions, 20 years after the airliner’s bankruptcy, a local newspaper reported Sunday. According to newspaper...
