The Municipal Group Ganar Totana IU will present a motion to the Plenary in which the support of the Totana City Council is requested to the claims of the State Coordinator for the Defense of the Public Pension System (COESPE). The State Coordinator for the Defense of the Public Pension System (COESPE) is mobilizing in order to obtain the institutional support of the different City Councils to request from the Government of Spain an Audit of the Social Security Accounts "to clarify the false deficits , debts and loans of the Social Security, as well as the amount of the debt of the State with the Social Security ". The COESPE, which groups the vast majority of Spanish Pensioners' Organizations, wants with this that the Totana City Council show its support so that “the Social Security accounts are clarified and the complete viability of the Public Pension System can be defended.
it has been maintained for years by the contributions of workers and entrepreneurs in the Spanish State ”. For decades, Social Security had significant surpluses in social contributions that allowed the creation of what is known to all as the “pension money box”.
"But, instead of constituting reserves, they were used by the governments of the day to finance public policies outside of Social Security, thus neglecting the respect for the Social Security assets established in article 103 of the General Law of Social Security, which determines that it is a sole patrimony for its purposes, different from the patrimony of the State ", as indicated in the motion presented by Ganar Totana-IU.
"The resources of the single Social Security box do not belong to any government, they belong to contributing workers." There are documents provided and debated in different Parliament Committees that state that "if this use of social contributions for purposes other than the payment of pensions had been accumulated, today there would be a reserve fund of 519,104 million euros." It would therefore be more than sufficient resources to meet current needs.
"The system would be sustainable and therefore, the pension reforms carried out or those announced by the Bank of Spain, AIReF or the OECD are not justified," adds the motion sent to Murcia.com. The money that belonged to the pension piggy bank was used for issues other than those it should, an apparently legal but incorrect practice, making surplus contributions disappear, so an official audit is necessary to determine the amount of such looting and be spare parts.
The State must restore it, thus strengthening Social Security, whose institutions and benefits have been the solid support of millions of working families. The General Law of Social Security, in its article 109, establishes that to attend the pensions, if social contributions are lacking, the State will make the necessary contributions.
However, instead of making these contributions at the expense of the General State Budgets, loans have been made, accumulating for years the Social Security liabilities, thus generating a false debt, which has also served for the State to hide its own deficit in the Social Security accounts. This practice, followed for years, has served to discredit the pay-as-you-go system, when the truth is that it is perfectly sustainable if the provisions of the General Social Security Law are complied with.
Behind the discredit of the pay-as-you-go system there is a bad budget practice; that wrongly imputes exemptions by way of expenses, such as employer contributions from ERTE and reductions in contributions to employers, and that by way of income does not guarantee the reserve of surpluses in the pension money box. For all the above, the Municipal Group of Ganar Totana Izquierda Unida proposes to the Plenary that the Totana City Council show its support to the State Coordinator for the Defense of the Public Pension System (COESPE) in its initiative for inexcusable compliance with the Law Social Security and the immediate cessation of accounting manipulations. In addition, the Government of Spain is urged to carry out an official audit of the general accounts of the Social Security, to clarify the supposed deficits, debts and loans of the Social Security, as well as the amount of the State debt with the Social Security, to that once the Social Security accounts are cleared, the pension reforms justified based on false accounting data be repealed and the labor reforms that do not guarantee decent wages and by extension decent pensions be repealed.
