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Government Opens Talks With State Retirees Over New Pension Cap

Senior officials met with former workers to consider demands that enforcement be paused until implementing rules are issued.

Overview

  • The Interior Ministry and the Presidential legal counsel received representatives of retirees from CFE, Pemex, Banobras and Luz y Fuerza to hear complaints about the pension reform.
  • Retirees are asking for a suspension of enforcement, saying cuts have already been applied to pensions and that rules to implement the constitutional change must be issued first.
  • Organizers say roughly 90,000 pensioners have been affected and they are collecting signatures aimed at securing legislative review of retroactive reductions.
  • Congress approved a constitutional cap in March that ties top public pensions to about half the president’s salary, roughly 70,000 pesos per month, while secondary laws to regulate implementation remain pending.
  • The dispute could force lawmakers to act or delay enforcement, and it directly affects long‑serving workers and families who say cuts would lower already established retirement incomes.