Sánchez completes the “payment” of his investiture and will transfer Social Security competences to the Basque Country
Darias argues that the transfer of management will preserve the single box and that other autonomies provide for it in its statutes. Denies that pensions are endangered
The Government returned yesterday to deny that the transfer of some Social Security competences to the Basque autonomous government will break the single pension fund. The Minister of Territorial Policy, Carolina Darias, has stressed that "in no case" the transfer of the Social Security economic management will affect "the unity of the system" and that decisions will be taken "within the framework" of the Toledo Pact and that in no case the pension fund is endangered. He also pointed out that other statutes of autonomy, not only that of Gernika, collect this same competence for their communities and that we will have to look for “consensus”. Darias has thus responded in the Plenary Session to a question on this issue of the PP deputy Víctor Píriz from Extremadura, for whom the negotiation with the Basque Government to carry out the transfer of this matter next year means “handing over the key” of the single box to the PNV.
Darias stressed that it has only been agreed to transfer, on the one hand, three competencies, which are “well advanced”, in reference to pharmaceutical products, school insurance and prior assistance to workers who have been subject to an Employment Regulation File (ERE), which will be effective from next March. Likewise, he pointed out that an “indicative schedule for transferring pending competences between 2020 and 2021” has been agreed, among which is “the beginning of studies for the examination of Social Security related matters in economic management "In the second half of 2021." This is the agreement and not another, "said the minister, adding that" given the complexity "will be addressed under the Toledo Pact.