Puerto Rico Plan of Liquidation
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The Plan of Adjustment filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, which has jurisdiction over PROMESA, provides a framework to restructure some $35 billion of liabilities (bonds and other claims) and $50 billion of unfunded pension liabilities, and reduces Puerto Rico's debt to sustainable ...
The debt restructuring plan was approved by a federal judge in January. It reduces claims against Puerto Rico's government from $33 billion to just over $7.4 billion, with 7 cents of every taxpayer dollar going to debt service, compared with 25 cents previously.
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico's gross domestic product (GDP) was $106.5 billion as of June 30, 2021. In March 2022, Puerto Rico finalized its largest debt restructuring: issuing $7.4 billion in new bonds replacing $34.3 billion in outstanding bonds (a 78 percent reduction).
The proposed Plan of Adjustment filed by the Oversight Board under PROMESA's Title III provides a framework to reduce the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico's debt to sustainable levels and is a milestone on Puerto Rico's path to exit bankruptcy.
Why did the U.S. take control of Puerto Rico? ?The U.S. for a long time had wanted to assert its sort of predominance in the Americas and remove European powers formally,? Christina Ponsa-Kraus, a professor of legal history at Columbia University, told McClatchy News.
More than eight years after the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority stopped paying its bonds and with most other Puerto Rico municipal issuers having since restructured their bonds, eight Puerto Rico bonds continue to pay in full and on time.
?The FOMB's Plan of Adjustment is premised on extracting further rents from commercial and residential energy consumers ?that is, ordinary citizens? to satisfy the unsecured claims of PREPA's bondholder-creditors.
The plan of adjustment is a document that provides for the treatment of the various classes of creditors' claims against the municipality. The Bankruptcy Code requires a debtor to file a plan. The plan can be filed along with the bankruptcy petition or at such later time as the court fixes.
