The director of the Economy Department of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Father Jose Luis Aleman, said the social security bill will bring major problems for the government. He said the government will have to make a contribution to the pension plan of 7.5% of each employee’s salary. He said the next government will inherit big problems trying to comply with the law recently passed. This government has said it will take at least 18 months to prepare the bureaucracy to implement the program. Father Aleman said the present government will get the credit for the bill, but the next government will get the brunt of having to find the cash to make it effective. Despite being an economic advisor to President Mejia, Father Aleman criticized the excessive number of employees hired by the Mejia administration. "Now they are not being called deputy ministers, they are known as delegates of the President of the Republic," he said. He said this situation is causing a hole in government finances, because each presidential delegate earns RD$15,000 to RD$20,000.
