{"id":235053,"date":"2025-04-30T07:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=235053"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:44:41","slug":"as-the-government-delays-pushing-forward-pension-reform-thousands-benefit-with-privileged-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/as-the-government-delays-pushing-forward-pension-reform-thousands-benefit-with-privileged-pensions\/","title":{"rendered":"As Congress delays pushing forward pension reform, thousands get privileged government pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pensiones-solidarias-Diario-Libre-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-235098\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pensiones-solidarias-Diario-Libre-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pensiones-solidarias-Diario-Libre-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pensiones-solidarias-Diario-Libre-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pensiones-solidarias-Diario-Libre-1536x857.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pensiones-solidarias-Diario-Libre.png 1778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pensions in the national pension plan end up being about 25% of the last wage made. The amounts are not enough to cover costs of those who retire after years in a job. But a growing privileged few are getting comfy pensions from the state itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diario Libre reports that in 2023, the Abinader administration approved 19,184 solidarity pensions. The government has paid out RD$8.68 billion in pensions over the past four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are now 51,921 beneficiaries of the government special pensions. This is up from 16,112 in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.diariolibre.com\/epaper\/viewer.aspx?publication=diariolibre&amp;date=29_04_2025&amp;tpuid=661#page\/10\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>30 April 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pensions in the national pension plan end up being about 25% of the last wage made. The amounts are not enough to cover costs of those who retire after years in a job. But a growing privileged few are getting comfy pensions from the state itself. Diario Libre reports that in 2023, the Abinader administration &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/as-the-government-delays-pushing-forward-pension-reform-thousands-benefit-with-privileged-pensions\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235053"}],"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=235053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235100,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235053\/revisions\/235100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}