Colombia’s Institute of Social Security (ISS) is bogged down with 75,000 claims from customers totalling over $550,000 reported the entity’s president, Silvia Helena Ramirez.
Plaintiffs allege irregularities in the institutes payment of pensions, funeral aid, and even not completing judicial orders to pay customers, reported newspaper El Espectador.
Ramirez said a large part of these pending claims are due to increased pensions and the entity has had to hire 350 lawyers for its defense.
The institute in charge of pension payment to working Colombians, has provisioned $55 million to attend to the costs of the filed claims according to the official who said that the ISS has been working to protect the resources of the State against the claims of the 75,000 plaintiffs.
