Like last year, the Milei government seeks to repeal the mobile nature of family allowances. In it article 70 of the majority opinion voted this Tuesday in the Budget and Finance Commission, it is briefly stated “Articles 1, 3 and 4 of Law No. 27,160 are repealed.” This project came out of the Commission in Deputies with the support of the PRO, UCR and deputies who report to governors of the PJ.
The elimination of mobility of AUH and Family Allowances would imply that increases in the amounts They are not tied to pension mobility but will be at the discretion of the government. Thus, they will not have a guarantee against inflation. This includes the allowances for children, for children with disabilities, prenatal, for annual school aid, for birth, for adoption, for marriage, the AUH, the pregnancy allowance for social protection and for comprehensive health care (provided for in Law 24,714), which registered and non-registered workers receive.
The two most important social benefits affected by the measure are: Universal Child Allowance (AUH)which reaches 4,113,370 holdersand the child allowance, with 4,107,320 beneficiaries. In total, the budget modification would directly impact more than 8 million children and adolescentsleaving most child subsidies without an automatic updating mechanism.
This had been a request from International Monetary Fund (IMF)to eliminate items that are linked to inflation, thus, they will be subject to being cut.
This is also what the legislator of the PTS-Left Front, Christian Castillo (expired mandate) in its minority opinion presented timely before the Budget Committee.
Law 27,160 is the Family Allowance Regimes. There, articles 1, 2 and 3 that would be repealed if the Budget text is approved.
He article 1 defines the mobility of said assignments: “Family allowances provided for in Law 24,714, its complementary and amending regulations, with the exception of that established in subsection e) of Article 6 of Law 24,714, They will be mobile. The calculation of the mobility index will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of article 32 of law 24,241 and its amendments. Mobility will be applied to the amount of family allowances and to the updating of the limits and income ranges of the family group that determine the collection, in cases where its use corresponds. In no case may the application of said index produce a decrease in the value of the assignment.“
Article 2 establishes a differential additional 30% for provinces of southern zone: “The value of the Universal Child Allowance for Social Protection and the Pregnancy Allowance for Social Protection, for holders residing in the areas provided for in Law 23,272, modified by Law 25,955, constituted by the provinces of La Pampa, Río Negro, Chubut, Neuquén, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands and the Patagones Party of the province of Buenos Aires, will have a differential amount consisting of applying the coefficient one and three tenths (1.3) on the base value of the current allocation for each period.”
Article 3 determines the Considered as application authority: “The National Social Security Administration (ANSES) will have in charge of calculating mobility in accordance with the guidelines established in this law.”
Additionally, the Budget 2026 that the Milei Government wants to approve also repeals the University Financing and Emergency Disability Laws conquered in the streets by massive struggles and great social support. If these were applied, they would mean relief from the government’s brutal adjustment, with cuts in salaries and items, but the Executive itself was in charge of enacting but not applying “due to lack of funds.”
It does not have the same criteria reduce withholdings for agricultural employersgranting million-dollar benefits to companies in subsidies, tax reductions and reliefs, and even “money laundering” and amnesties of all kinds to evaders.
The elimination of the automatic indexation of family allowances and AUH is part of a set of adjustment measures against working people which includes the 2026 Budget, the labor reform, the Tax Innocence law, which are added to the Bases law, the tax reform and DNU 70/2023, along with the rest of the laws that came out of Congress with the support of deputies with wigs.
It is necessary to confront this historic attack in the streets and in the workplace, with a response that is equal to the circumstances. It is not enough to have an isolated act by the CGT that negotiates with all governments to defend its own interests, ignoring the needs of working people. This Thursday, December 18, we must be many to fill the Plaza de Mayo and impose a national strike and a plan of struggle to the union bureaucracies, that it does not end until defeating the war plan of Milei, the IMF, Trump and the big bosses.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
