Several weeks ago, DR1 published a note about a widow that had filed an appeal to receive death benefits and a RD$5,000 pension earned by her late husband. The Constitutional Court in that case ordered the Ministry of Hacienda to pay over RD$2 million to the widow because of a RD$20,000 per day penalty for non-payment applied to the court’s decision since Hacienda did not pay the widow after the initial decision.
In the latest case, the Constitutional Court has ordered Hacienda to pay a man, Wilson Arias, who worked for the Industrias Banilejas (Café Santo Domingo) for 29 years and the company and the employee paid into the Dominican Social Security Institute (now defunct) every month. Sentence TC-0501-19, issued on 2 November of 2019, ordered the payment of the pension owed the worker, and it added a RD$5,000 per day penalty clause to the decision. Since it has been some 943 days since the decision was handed down, the sum now owed Arias has grown to RD$4,715,000.
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Listin Diario
20 March 2023