Budget allocates 1,522 new retirement incentive slots for 2026

The Budget Directorate of the Ministry of Finance allocated 1,522 slots for the additional retirement bonus for the year 2026, corresponding to the sixth transitory article of Law 20,948, through Exempt Resolution 839, issued on November 6, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, in edition number 44,595, pages 1 to 6 (official reference CVE 2900511). The benefit is granted in accordance with articles 21 and 22 of Law 21,850, for National Reconstruction and Economic and Social Development, and applies to public service officials seeking early retirement.

The regulation is based on numeral 2 of the sixth transitory article of Law 20,948 and Supreme Decree 817, of 2025, from the Ministry of Finance, which regulates the granting of the bonus for the years 2026 and 2027. The resolution was signed by the Budget Director, José Pablo Gómez Meza, and orders that the employing institutions notify each selected individual and issue the administrative acts granting the benefits.

The Civil Registry and Education concentrate the highest number of slots

The list by service is led by the Civil Registry and Identification Service, with 154 slots, followed by the Undersecretary of Education and the Roads Directorate, with 90 each, and the Internal Revenue Service, with 89.

• Labor Directorate: 52 slots.
• National Forestry Corporation: 47.
• National Defense Pension Fund: 46.
• Social Security Institute: 45.
• National Customs Service: 39.
• General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics: 37.
• National Health Fund: 32.
• Agricultural and Livestock Service: 31.
• Treasury Service: 29.
• Agricultural Development Institute: 24.
• Comptroller General of the Republic and Chilean Gendarmerie: 23 each.
• Dipreca Hospital: 22.
• National Institute of Statistics, National Cultural Heritage Service, and National Institute of Sports: 21 each.

The complete list covers ministries, regional governments, dependent services, and the Public Prosecutor’s Office (11 slots), the Presidency (6), and the Electoral Service (16), totaling 1,522 assigned slots.

From 2,200 to 6,000 slots and the effect of withdrawals

Article 21 of Law 21,850, published on October 17, 2026, replaced the number of slots in the first paragraph of Article 5 of Law 20,948, which increased from 2,200 to 6,000 for 2026. Article 22 of that same law provided that, if the resolution identifying the beneficiaries had already been issued, the Budget Directorate would issue one or more resolutions assigning the available slots generated by that modification, which would be granted preferentially to those included in the selected list for the 2026 process.

To this is added the effect of the withdrawals recorded during the year:

• Exempt Resolution 618, of August 13, 2026: 107 withdrawals.
• Exempt Resolution 733, of October 5, 2026: 197 withdrawals and 3 resignations of officials who were part of the 2027 preferential list.
• Exempt Resolution 799, of October 22, 2026: 2 withdrawals.

Between July 1 and October 20, 2026, an additional 7 slots were assigned via the preferential route, through exempt resolutions 639, 640, 674, 675, 697, 732, and 734. The resolution maintains that, with the legal increase and the withdrawals, there are sufficient slots to cover the entire preferential list.

Resignation Deadlines and Incompatibility Warning

Those selected must inform the Human Resources department of their entity in writing of the date of definitive departure from the position and the total hours served, within the deadlines of numeral 5 of the sixth transitory article of Law 20,948. They must cease their position by voluntary resignation or under the first paragraph of Article 161 of the Labor Code no later than the first day of the fifth month following the expiration of the deadline to set the resignation, or upon reaching 65 years of age for men and 60, 61, 62, 63, or 64 years for women, if that date is later.

The resolution recalls, in its fourth resolution, that the second paragraph of Article 15 of Law 20,948 declares the benefits incompatible with any other of a comparable nature originating from a similar cause of granting and with any other retirement benefit received previously.

The impact is direct for thousands of public officials of retirement age: the resolution not only expands the list of beneficiaries but also enables employing institutions to issue the administrative acts that materially grant the bonus, meaning that the retirement processes already selected no longer depend on the availability of slots and are subject only to the fulfillment of the requirements and the cessation deadlines.

Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, No. 44,595, Tuesday, November 10, 2026, Section I, General Norms, pp. 1-6 (official reference: CVE 2900511).