2024-02-21 13:46:00
The Minister of Economy Luis Caputo had announced that the increase in retirements would reach 30% but he fell short. Finally, will be just over 27% and for the defender of the elderly Eugenio Semino, the passive class is still losing 40% in the face of inflation.
For the calculation Semino referred to the last quarter December, January, February in which it contemplated an estimated between 65 and 70% of cost of living (February inflation still remains to be known), with which This 27% recomposition will leave assets losing a number close to 40% regarding.
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This February 21, in Resolution 38/2024 of the Official Bulletinl, the government defined that the increase established by the update of retirement benefits, the AUH and other allowances, paid by la National Social Security Administration (ANSES) will reach 27.18% in March. In addition, confirmed the dates on which an additional bonus will be paid, however the amount is still unknown.
The reference to take into account is that the amount received during December, January and February, for lower-income retirees, was $55.000 to complete $160,000.
The specialists consulted by PERFIL explained that This sum will be very important to actually know how much the minimum asset will be, But the first accounts they draw leave older adults with a sad followingtaste in their mouths. For example, the Dra Andrea Falcone described the situation of retirees and this latest increase as “a very disvaluable situation.”
He justified his analysis from different points. “First I find it difficult from an emotional point of view when you are not coming to eat, because that is the situation of retirees today. They tell you 30% and then it ends up being less. Even if one says that this difference is not that much, it seems to me that it was not correct,” he argued.
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Secondly, he referred to the additional sum that is not yet known how much it will be. “The bonus thing is key for everyone, especially because what was being said from the government off the record is that they were going to try to give more raises to the people who had contributed to the system and that is not verified,” he commented.
In that line he explained “There are many who contributed more than 30 years who do not have the minimum and are not receiving bonuses or extra increases. It is clear that An adjustment like this has never occurred in history since the pension system existed. We are with a reduction even with this increase close to 50% loss,” he criticized.
Finally he said: “I don’t know if they are thinking regarding a way out or if they are going to continue celebrating the surplus on the basis of an adjustment in social security of this magnitude.”
It is not the caste without the passive class that pays the adjustment
On the other hand, also the Dr. Ariel Samana echoed this idea that The passive class is the one who is paying the government adjustment. “With this 27 percent, retirees will lose much more than with 35% today.” For the lawyer, the most complicated thing is that this increase is not only for next month. “It is not in March but until June 2024, which means there is a high loss of purchasing power on the part of the pension assets.” that they are paying the cost of the adjustment,” he argued.
For the specialist in older adult issues, “The greatest incidence of the cut is in that 15 percent of the Argentine population that is over 60 years old, which is what is really paying for the adjustment beyond the things that are announced of personnel reduction in the state, abolition of secretariats, etc. etc. “
According to Samana, “the political games go one way, but in reality, specifically, andThe adjustment is being suffered by the passive population who, as the word says, She is also passive regarding her complaint, because in reality it is a silent pain that she goes through,” he argued.
On the other hand, the lawyer recognized a complex and highly critical situation ““I have several cases of people whose health conditions have worsened,” and he advanced: “we are going to notice more frequently a higher rate of depression or more critical situations in older people who are cornered by an economic situation of exclusion.”
What the Official Gazette says regarding the increase in retirements
The increase that sets the update of retirement benefits, the AUH and other allowances, paid by the National Social Security Administration (ANSES), was made official through Resolution 38/2024 published in the Official Gazette, with the signature of Osvaldo Giordano, who still continues to lead the organization, having no replacement following Javier Milei’s request for resignation.
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The official document did not specify how the amounts of the minimum and maximum pensions will be from March 1. Nor was the collection of the bonus for retirees specified, which along with the increase in mobility was advanced by Caputo. In any case, with the increase of 27.18%, The minimum retirement will go from $105,713 to $134,445.79, while the maximum gross income will go from $711,346 to $904,690.
It is worth considering that the resolution of today does not say anything regarding a the new amounts of the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) and the Pregnancy Allowance (AUH). In January, the amounts had been doubled by decree, so it remains to be known whether the increase in these mobility allowances will be made by the original amount or by the one expanded in January.
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