Statutory laws as a way to reform the social security pension system

La propuesta de adelantar una futura reforma al sistema de pensiones colombiano a través de una ley estatutaria busca dar una seguridad jurídica al sistema para evitar que, como ha ocurrido con la Ley 100 de 1993, proliferen sucesivas reformas parciales, bien por el Congreso de la República o por medio de decretos reglamentarios que, aunque no constituyen reformas propiamente dichas, sí introducen modificaciones al sentido original de la ley que han permitido de los jueces numerosas interpretaciones que no se ajustan en un todo al espíritu de la ley original.The proposal to advance a future reform to the Colombian pension system through a statutory law seeks to give legal certainty to the system, to avoid that, as has happened with Law 100 of 1993, successive partial reforms have proliferate, either by the Congress of the Republic, or by means of regulatory decrees that, although they do not constitute actual reforms, they introduce  modifications to the original meaning of the law, that have allowed judges numerous interpretations that do not fully conform to the spirit of the original law