スペインでは、付加価値税などの値上げなどで消費者物価指数が2'7%ー2'8%上がるので、社会保険による年金の値上げは、30億0000'0000ユーロ以上に
El IVA pasa factura a la Seguridad Social
El impacto en el IPC obligará a pagar más de 3.000 millones a los pensionistas
Las cuentas del instituto público están en una situación precaria
Manuel V. Gómez Madrid 17 AGO 2012 - 01:40 CET
The tax bill goes to the Social Security
The impact on the IPC required to pay more than 3,000 million to pensioners
The institute's public accounts are in a precarious
Manuel V. Gomez Madrid 17 AGO 2012 - 01:40 CET
Mariano Rajoy is very difficult to keep his last promise. "I have no intention to lower pensions next year. It would be the last budget that I would play, "said the Prime Minister after the last Council of Ministers before going on vacation. But their own decisions in recent months it will become very difficult. The pharmaceutical copayment, the VAT hike, the university fees or motorway tolls push up prices (the CPI was 2.2% in July), and they will return to the summer . So in November when the time comes to numbers, the 1% increase in pensions earlier this year will prove insufficient and Social Security will be scratching his pocket and much-if the government wants to avoid that retirees do not lose purchasing power.
Sources: National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Employment and the author. / COUNTRY
On July 1, took effect on increased drug copayment. And from now on the consumer price index (CPI) will no truce. With the new school year, rising university fees. And from September, the biggest blow of all: the VAT increase.
"The forthcoming increase in VAT will move significantly to the IPC," says Instituto Flores de Lemus. According to calculations by the Research Department of the Universidad Carlos III, one of the most prestigious studying the behavior of prices, the annual CPI in November and December will be 2.6%. Before meeting retail tax increases its forecast was 1.9%.
Funcas, the economic cabinet of the savings banks, predicts that prices later this year will grow by 2.7% or 2.8%. Intermoney anticipates that when updating their forecasts inflation will be about 3%.
The price level that marks the November CPI is taken as reference, according to the General Law on Social Security, to determine whether the increase of pensions issued at the beginning of a year was enough to prevent the loss of purchasing power. If not enough, the public school has to compensate retirees. For this, the policy states that pensioners have to charge extra pay to correct the backlog and further consolidate the improvement in the pension the following year.
Upon arrival at La Moncloa Rajoy pensions increased by 1%. But prices will rise much more and keeping your promises could cost the Social Security over 3,000 million euros.
With that rise and reiteration of the promise, Rajoy was put away with Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who froze pensions in 2011 (he did suspend the law by decree cuts May 2010). The cuts applied the PP in the eight months he has been in power snips comfortably exceed the PSOE. However, stiff opposition from Rajoy to that freezing-in real terms, a reduction of pensions-has become anathema any loss of purchasing power of retirees.
But will keep intact taboo dearly. Knowing the Social Security accounts explain that every tenth that prices grow above 1%, cost over 200 million to the system (100 for the extra pay, which are charged against the budget this year, and another 100 by consolidation). Taking into account the forecast Instituto Flores de Lemus for November (2.6%), this means that the invoice amount to 3,300 million, a record payout for the revaluation.
The Reserve Fund, available when "structural deficit"
In 12 years the Reserve Fund Social Security has accumulated almost 68,000 million to pay the pensions when they come wrongly made. And everything indicates that the lean times of the pension system is just around the corner.
But access to those resources is not arbitrary to decide makers turn Social Security. In order to have the money that the bank collects pension, the equivalent of the monthly payroll together nine months, it is necessary that the pension system incurs "structural deficit".
The definition of this concept is in the decree law develops Fund. It states that this structural deficit occurs when strung three quarters of red ink in the whole system (taking into account the outcome of the management of occupational accident insurance), and closed the year under review with negative results. With this definition, it is expected that at the end of 2012 and the requirements necessary for the Government to use the money from the bank.
From the outset, the Reserve Fund invests in bonds, mostly Spanish (over 90% in June). Given the state of the debt market, it might think that if Social Security had to divest precipitously could end up losing money. But when you see the composition of the portfolio and its maturity, would have to be very large capital needs of the pension system for the occurrence of this situation.
Only until the end of the year, the Fund has outstanding maturity of 3,000 million euros. The number rises to 18,000 when seen everything that is conventionally understood as short-term debt, which matures in less than three years.
For Social Security to pay the additional amount in 2012 (1,650 million because only half is allocated in the budget this year), is a challenge. The costs rise at a rate of 4.3% so far this year, well above budget. Meanwhile, income-burdened by the drop in employment and increased deferred payments to undertakings-fall 4.1%, when the government expected to grow. Only with these two facts and you can advance the public school will end the year in the red, which will enlarge if Rajoy keeps his promise.
In addition, there are several symptoms that show that public school may be doomed to suffer this year major liquidity problems, especially in December and January (two months will have to pay more than 22,000 million regardless of the pay compensatory) . The same Secretary of State for Social Security, Tomás Burgos, has admitted. One of those signs is that Jobs has just given two resolutions to access the money left for years in the management of mutual accidents (over 4,000 million).
Another symptom can be observed when analyzing the progress of budget execution through June. In the first half of the year, the Ministry of Finance has transferred more money (4,400 million) public employment service to pay unemployment insurance than transferred in 2011. In previous years, given that the Social Security Treasury had plenty of money, the payment of benefits shall be made from the public school and end of year accounts add up. In addition, the Treasury has advanced 2,500 million for the payment of pensions.
The precarious situation of Social Security accounts has led the government to take, between 2012 and 2013, the minimum pension supplements (over 7,000 million). And despite all these lines of support, it may not be enough. Rajoy has options, but no policy is easily explained.
At the behest of Brussels, the Government intends to define the sustainability factor-linking pension retirement age, pension amounts and appreciation to life expectancy and economic conditions, much earlier than expected (2027). Apply now would be a radical step. Dip into the Reserve Fund Pensions (68,000 million) or freeze pensions also depends on the will of Rajoy, much as the General Law of Social Security dictates that you have to maintain the purchasing power of pensioners.
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