Politics · Mexico · 6 hrs ago
Retired Mexican judges ask Senate to help secure unpaid benefits
Retired judges in Mexico asked the Senate to intervene over unpaid benefits during a meeting with its Justice Commission.
They say the Judicial Administration Body has not resolved claims for 80 indemnities and 120 supplementary pensions.
The claims concern rights linked to the 2024 judicial reform and employment benefits the judges say were already recognized.
The indemnity dispute turns partly on whether judges submitted their decision not to take part in an election to the correct authority, since the filing rules were clarified after some had applied.
The judges say administrative differences should not be used to deny payments, and that supplementary pensions have existed since 1996.
They estimate about 600 million pesos is needed to cover the outstanding amounts and say legal restrictions leave them without an effective way to challenge some decisions.
They asked lawmakers to urge the body to settle valid claims, add transitional rules to a future law and create ways to defend judicial workers’ labor rights; no decision on their requests was reported.
Retired Mexican judges asked the Senate to help secure payment of 80 indemnities and 120 supplementary pensions.
They accuse the Judicial Administration Body of failing to resolve their claims.
The judges say the payments are owed under rights recognized by the September 2024 judicial reform and earlier labor rules.
Their association’s president asked lawmakers to urge the body to decide the claims and make payments that are legally due.
She estimated that covering the outstanding amounts would require 600 million pesos.
- Who
- Retired judges, represented by Elba Sánchez Pozos, president of the Association of Retired Judges.
- What
- They asked the Senate to help secure 80 indemnities and 120 supplementary pensions they say remain unpaid.
- When
- At a Senate Justice Committee meeting; the article was published on October 15, 2026.
- Where
- The Senate in Mexico.
- Why
- They say the Judicial Administration Body has not resolved their claims for benefits protected by the judicial reform and earlier labor rights.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The judicial reform came into force.
The Senate specified that declinations from participating in the election had to be submitted to the Senate.
Retired judges asked the Senate Justice Committee to intervene over unpaid indemnities and supplementary pensions.
- Outstanding indemnities
- 80
- Outstanding supplementary pensions
- 120
- Estimated amount needed
- 600 million pesos
- Indemnity formula described
- Three months of integrated salary plus 20 days of salary for each year of service
- Judicial election originally planned
- 2027; later postponed to 2028
What people are saying
We are not here to ask for privileges, as has been said in the media. We are asking you to highlight the failure to comply with rights expressly protected by the body that amended the Constitution.
Rights are not begged for; they are recognized, respected and fulfilled.
Unlike other workers in the country, because of that prohibition included in the organic law, we have no means of defense.