Ten years after the family of Colombia’s social security chief received $200,000 meant for poor famers, far-right politician Susana Correa now seems to be withholding coronavirus relief funds. The former…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that people are obligated to provide assistance to elderly family members that are not able to care for themselves, according to El Tiempo newspaper.
The Colombian welfare system can be characterized as much by its ineffective Kafkaesque bureaucratic nature as by its neglect. Among the hills of southwestern Antioquia, in the municipality of Ciudad Bolivar,…
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos Tuesday signed a law to financially assist workers who have lost their jobs.
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.…
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…
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…
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 institutes payment…
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…