The State Pensions Directorate (DPE) Crisis: Threatening Social Outbreak and Unresolved Financial Assistance Issues.

A problem that threatens to become a social outbreak if it is not resolved in a short time is that of the State Pensions Directorate (DPE), it is not only a matter of retirees but also of active workers, who ask for financial assistance your problems and no longer waste yourself in useless concerts or plays. Meanwhile, the senior officer acknowledges that there are no settlements to settle and the governor announces, seeking to calm things down, that the debts will not be settled because the amount is scandalous, but that in the meantime he has decided to dismiss Jorge Alberto Escudero Villa from his duties who served as head of that address. By the way, he is the least responsible for the problem and, rather, he was one of the most efficient collaborators of the state cabinet.

We must remember that the DPE is a decentralized public body that is in charge of managing funds and granting pensions, retirements and other social benefits of state bureaucrats. It is not a dependency of the Executive nor is it contemplated within the organic law of the Public Administration; With the exception of the owner, their workers are paid by the DPE itself, not by the state government; It does not receive a single peso from the state budget either, which can be verified in the Expenditure Budget Law that is published every year. In other words, the resources that make up the pension fund do not belong to the Executive, nor can it take control by law; They are strictly from three groups of workers: bureaucrats, workers in the regular state educational system, and telesecundaria workers.

The aforementioned resources come from a percentage of the income that, fortnight after fortnight, the Ministry of Finance (SF) retains from each worker to create the fund with which they will retire; this withholding is the one that (by superior orders) the SF has not delivered to the DPE. In the same way, trying to hold the former director of the unit responsible for 900 million in loans is one more of many absurdities that characterize the administration. Loan mechanisms for workers and retirees are established by the pension law itself through a revolving fund from which loans are granted with a determined interest, the payment of which allows new loans to be granted to other workers. Every fortnight the amount owed by the worker is deducted; however, also in this case, the SF has not delivered this resource to the DPE.

In other words, the resource gradually ran out since the fund from which the loans were available (due to its own revolving nature) requires the return of the proportional part of the loan and its respective interest every fortnight to lend to other applicants. , something that throughout the year 2022 and so far in 2023 the SF has stopped doing.

The aforementioned pension fund currently has in its assets a little more than $4,200 million pesos in different investments that have been approved by the regulatory entities. However, neither the pension director nor the workers decide the destination of the investments; each of the groups has a representative at the table and freely decides according to established rules and parameters in which investment mechanism (low and medium risk) they decide to apply their resources, as well as when and how to cancel those investments; If we consider the background of Governor Ricardo Gallardo, we would have to wonder if the comptroller really detected irregularities (let us consider that there is no formal complaint) or is it a simple distraction to appropriate the loot that those millions represent.

The departure of the director was foreseeable, it has an origin: since the end of last year they began to introduce personnel from the SF to the DPE; The objective was precise: seize various bank accounts and their electronic devices. With this, they not only reduced his strength and exercise capacity, but also tied the hands of the DPE personnel who, without any autonomy, had to request authorization from the treasurer’s front men to pay for any concept.

The governor will be able to suspend any director that occurs to him, declare any occurrence, and order all the audits that he wants (although apparently he is unaware that an audit does not determine the cancellation of loans that the law establishes, nor orders or authorizes the payments) but nothing will change as long as you don’t repay everything you have withheld. Hopefully the bureaucrats in office and retirees act now, it seems that they do not realize that their pension system, which they are going to rely on in their retirement to meet their needs!, is being withheld and used at the free whim of a government complexed, capricious, liar and tracalero.

Thanks for reading. An affectionate and heartfelt hug for Alejandro and Manuel Nava Calvillo.