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House committee approves three pension and labor measures, adopts amendment expanding stated beneficiaries
Summary
A House committee in Puerto Rico approved three measures on May 29, 2024 — a pension purchasing-power bill (PC 2038), a firefighters’ retirement adjustment (PC 271), and a substitute establishing base pay for guards (substitute to PC 2116 / S492) — and accepted an amendment to explicitly note about 160,000 beneficiaries.
A committee of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives approved three labor and pension-related measures on May 29, 2024, and adopted an amendment clarifying who would benefit from one bill.
At a public final-consideration session of the Comisión de Asuntos Laborales y Transformación del Sistema de Pensiones para un Retiro Digno, the committee approved Proyecto de la Cámara 2038, whose stated purpose is to protect the purchasing power of pensions for retired public employees, public corporations and municipalities and to secure financing sources for that protection. Committee staff announced the final vote on PC 2038 as nine in favor, zero against, zero abstentions; the chair declared the measure approved.
The committee also approved Proyecto de la…
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