{"id":194437,"date":"2023-03-06T07:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=194437"},"modified":"2023-03-06T09:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:12:56","slug":"constitutional-court-orders-rd1-2-million-in-back-pension-to-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/06\/constitutional-court-orders-rd1-2-million-in-back-pension-to-widow\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Court orders RD$1.2 million in back pension to widow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Tribunal-Constitucional-Listin-Diario-1024x880.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194536\" width=\"300\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Constitutional Court ordered the Ministry of Hacienda and its Pension and Retirement Agency to pay RD$1,220,000 to a widow. The court supports a sentence issued by a lower court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman had claimed survivor benefits from her husband under the old Dominican Social Security Institute (IDSS) protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The widow had asked for the RD$5,117.50 pension assigned to her husband but which was not forthcoming. In a 2021 sentence (TC-0493-21) the Constitutional Court had already ordered the payment of the pension and added a penalty of RD$20,000 for each day that the decision was not carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February of 2022, the widow asked the Court to enforce payment of the penalties since she had not received her pension money. As a result, the Constitutional Court issued decision TC-0117-23 on 24 February 2023 and ordered the Ministry of Hacienda and its agency to pay 61 days-worth of penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2023\/03\/04\/765474\/tc-condena-a-hacienda-a-pagar-rd-1-2-mm-por-no-otorgar-pension-de-cinco-mil-pesos-a-una-viuda\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 March 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Court ordered the Ministry of Hacienda and its Pension and Retirement Agency to pay RD$1,220,000 to a widow. The court supports a sentence issued by a lower court. The woman had claimed survivor benefits from her husband under the old Dominican Social Security Institute (IDSS) protocols. The widow had asked for the RD$5,117.50 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/06\/constitutional-court-orders-rd1-2-million-in-back-pension-to-widow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194537,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194437\/revisions\/194537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}