The majority of Spaniards retire from the age of 65 with the aim of perceiving the full pension, although it is also possible to retire before this age through early retirement, which can be voluntary or involuntary. This has an immediate consequence, which is to perceive a lower percentage of the pension than the one that would have corresponded to him if he had not retired in advance.
A good example of this is the case of Santiago Martínez who, with 44 years quoted, was fired at age 59, ended up unemployment and had no choice but to retire in advance. When he reached 61 he was already age for involuntary early retirement and also stopped receiving unemployment help, so he had no choice but to retire.
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A 24% penalty in your pension
In a YouTube video, this 67 -year -old octogenarian explained his work career and how he was forced to retire with a 24% penalty about his pension at 61. And all this came after living another important ‘stick’ in his life: he was fired after 22 years working in the technical assistance sector for.
He was the leader of a work team in his company, until he was fired. “Labor reforms brought the target dismissal, that is, companies can be removed from workers who have been and that better working conditions have,” Santiago recalls.
The retiree explains that his former company was able to do this with the justification that “they have had losses or lost a client.”
“A dismissal takes me 59 years to unemployment with compensation of 20 days per year and 2 years later, I run out of unemployment.”
His only solution was to retire in advance
Martinez, therefore, was presented with a fairly difficult situation from which he practically only had a way of leaving, asking for early retirement: “As I have the possibility and the legal age (61 years) to be able to retire in advance, they no longer give me unemployment and I have to opt for early retirement,” he explains.
“Of course, how I retire 4 years in advance and 44 years quoted, because I have a 24% penalty for a lifetime.”
Worked in an attack
The retiree spoke about his work career and how he reached the company that fired him. “I started working with 14 years of kitchen assistant,” he began.
Santiago Martínez worked as a kitchen assistant until September 14, 1974 with 17 years, explained that “I worked on Calle del Correo where it was the explosion of the Rolando cafeteria.”
“I was there and, well, that struck me enough to have to ‘reset,” he recalled. Thus he added that “it is to look for your life again, change your job again, train and self -form.”
This man had to leave school at age 14, so his little level of studies (he only had primary) forced him to get the greatest graduate: “The school graduate had to take it out later in nocturnal.”
In addition, he remembers that from the attack he never became the same again and certain things already gave him anxiety, such as “the noise of the extractors and going down to basements.”
That is why he decided to study computer science and acquire a new training. Meanwhile, to pay for studies, I worked in all kinds of businesses such as “carpet cleaning sites, in dry cleaner, installing air conditioning structures, looking for life.”
After years of self -training and numerous jobs, this retiree ended up in the company mentioned before where he was 22 years until his target dismissal.
Santiago Martínez is part of the ASJUBI40 association formed by more people who had to retire in advance, such as Manuel Barrera, and are being penalized for it. This association has not stopped collecting signatures and organizing demonstrations in order to defend those people with 40 years quoted who have received a penalty in the amount of their pension for having been in advance in advance involuntarily.
“I urge that injustice to be corrected, because I think that with more than 40 years, I believe that we deserve that they do not punish us with a penalty, we have had enough punishment with having started working with 14 years,” he concluded.