Authorities from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) in Cuba updated the retirement age in Cuba for women and men on the social network X (formerly Twitter), following the Social Security Law.
La Social Security Law in Cuba establishes that women can retire at Age 60, while men do it at the 65 yearsThis rule is currently in force and, according to the authorities, its modification is not planned in the short term.
This was confirmed this week from the account in X from the MTSS: «No modification is planned. There are other mechanisms to encourage job retention that we should promote.
However, beyond age, there are other conditions that must be met to access retirement: having worked At least 30 years and to be employment-related at the time of meeting the requirements. In other words, age alone is not enough: an active and consistent working life is required to qualify for this right to retirement, according to the organization itself.
Cuba: retirement age
Although they exist mechanisms to encourage continued employment, such as contracts for older people or benefits for accumulated experience, these are still insufficient in a context marked by a strong economic crisis.
One of the biggest challenges facing retirees in Cuba is the low pension amounts.
The average pension is around 1,500 CUP monthly (although it may vary), which not enough to cover basic needs such as food, medicine or transportation, especially in the face of inflation and the sustained increase in prices in formal and informal markets.
Many older adults are forced to continue working or seek additional income in order to survive, which highlights the inadequacy of the current system and the urgency of implementing structural reforms that guarantee a dignified old age, beyond the retirement age, which will remain unchanged.
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When you retire at 65, due to the current precarious situation, the daily stress, the work you spend working, you're worthless, and with the pension you receive, you're worth less.
I worked for 43 years in education. I was an elementary school teacher, an adjunct professor at the University of Manzanilo, a professor in the master's program, a head of cycle, director of a boarding school, director of a daycare center, a municipal methodologist, and I served on an international mission in Venezuela, among other contributions to education and teacher training. However, my pension came to 2128 pesos. How can I live humanly on so little? How unfair!
That's right, a law that was put to a popular vote and no one agreed and yet they put it in, that's how it works by law of the K
What do they solve if they know that retirees with 1500 pesos are not enough for anything, and they have not yet increased their retirement or are waiting for them to die?
Apparently, you fear
Apparently, you fear
It's a shame what these types of requirements are for Cubans' retirement. Even with serious illnesses like terminal cancer, they aren't even retired after a medical examination. In addition, I've seen many die in real life without ever reaching retirement age. And what's more, the miserable wages they receive as retirees are just running out of medication if they have an illness. What modalities are there for staying in the workplace in this case? There are no working conditions at any job; they just work twice as hard to survive. And we can't forget to mention the work they do to acquire cash at the banks to have the minimum they can buy with the pension they receive.
Good afternoon, I'm 56 years old. I've been working for more than 30 years and I'm currently working. Why can't I retire if I already have the years of service and so I can support my daughter with the children?
I think they should raise salaries and pensions too because it really is not enough to buy anything because today a bottle of oil is 1500 and 1600 pesos and a pound of pork is 1200 when a retiree earns $1500 which is not enough for anything and the driver is also earning 2500 which is what 2500 is today for a worker who has been working for 30 years it seems unbelievable I think this has some solution and that person also who does not have a checkbook has nothing to live on or buy medicine or buy their own sustenance for example my mother who is 86 years old has nothing not even a checkbook to buy her medicine she is a sick person with a heart problem a cardiac arrhythmia they took many of them she cannot take anything that contains acid or eat anything that can cause a heart attack my sister is taking care of her she is an elderly person too and she does not have a pension either they are vulnerable she lives in Ciego de Ávila Carolina Venezuela I leave the address Just in case you want to help her and you live in a bad state, also a wooden house with a dirt floor, what can I say? There are many things I can't write about. I need you to help me please, if anyone has a real heart, just a revolutionary Fidelista to kill herself.