Two decades of reform Social Security: from Toledo Pact of 1995 to the Social and Economic Agreement of 2011

Abstract

The Congress's Representatives has approved in its meeting, held on January 25, 2011, a called Report of Evaluation and Reform of the Pact of Toledo. After following some precedents, they made a series of recommendations to the Government in order to give greater viability and sustainability of the public system of benefits.

In fact, almost in parallel with the final development of the work on the Committee of the Toledo Pact, the Government and the Social Partners Representatives have signed on February 2, 2011 a Social and Economic Agreement for Growth, Employment and Pension Security, which Part II is devoted to the Agreement on the reform and strengthening the public pension system, for which altered the basic parameters (age of access, calculation of the base or determining the amount of benefit) in the target on the objective, as stated in the agreement, to provide a pension system that allows greater strength to face the challenges of the coming decades.

Both the Report of the Congress of Representatives and the Agreement to Reform and Strengthen the Public Pension System, bring its origins in the political pacts or social arrangements agreed from the years 1995 and 1996, respectively so you can hardly understand their content without taking into account the commitments made in those before them and the policy measures taken to integrate those with the legal system.

Therefore, in this work is carried out in paragraph I, a brief analysis of the Covenants of 1995 and 2003 political and social agreements of 1996, 2001 and 2006, as well as legislative changes resulting there from, to proceed in section II to explain the content and scope of the new report of evaluation and reform of the Pact of Toledo and the Agreement on the Reform and Strengthening the Pension System.

This work has no purpose other than providing an explanation to the public reader of the contents of the recommendations of the Pact of Toledo (and its antecedents) and the reform proposals agreed between the Government and social organizations, but without conducting a review, positive or critical, ones and others, which surely will be addressed in recent months by many specialists in the workplace and Spanish Social Security.