Los BEPS como alternativa en la protección social del adulto mayor en Colombia

Abstract

With the launch of the National Development Plan “Prosperity for all” 2010-2014, the launch of the new Plan for the Protection of Old Age was included, within the complementary social services regulated in Law 100 of 1993, the so-called Periodically Economic Benefits (BEPS), acronym in Spanish, which are regulated through Decree 0604 of 2013 issued on April 1, 2013. On the other hand, according to the figures found by FASECOLDA, insurer’s guild, it should be noted that six of each ten people who contribute to the pension systems do not get their old-age pension. According to this reality and in relation to BEPS, the following questions arise:

1. Are the BEPS a mechanism that effectively responds to the principles of efficiency, universality and solidarity, as the basis of the General Comprehensive Social Security System? 2. Does this system of benefits exclude the obligation of the State to protect the contingencies of disease, old age and death, going against the quality of life and human dignity of the most vulnerable population in the country?