This Tuesday a plenary of commissions of the Chamber of Deputies left several ready Initiatives on retirement and can already summon a session to treat them. They hope to carry them to the enclosure next Tuesday 20 or Wednesday, May 21where they will include in the agenda the declaration of emergency in disability and Bucar will vote the authorities of the investigative commission of the Estafa $ Libra that is paralyzed by a draw.
About retirement there were More than ten opinions. At least six of them have to do with a Proposal against the expiration of the pension moratorium on March 23. The Milei government opposes an extension, which implies that 85% of the population of retirement cannot do so and falls into the PUAM (elderly pension) that is even less than The minimum retirement in May is at $ 355,800 (With bonus included). The women They are the most affected by this situation: about one million will not be able to access a retirement in the next period, and the PUAM elevates the age to retire to 65 years.
On this occasion, there were official numbers that were put on the table and show the Javier Milei’s government priorities. The extension of the pension moratoriumaccording to the Congress Budget Office, it would have a fiscal cost of 0.08% of GDP. The same organism calculated that the Reduction of personal goods tax which was voted next to the Bases Law implies that the National State stops collecting 0.40% of GDP only in 2025. That is, The measure that benefits 400,000 people who are among the richest in the country, than a pension moratorium so that hundreds of thousands of people of retirement age can do so can do so can be more expensive..
Moratory or proportional benefit?
This will be one of the debates in the enclosure and there are opposite looks.
The only ones who propose extend the pension moratorium for two years which defeated in March are the opinions of Union for the Homeland and the Left Front. But in the case of The left add a point: Create a universal retirement benefit, of permanent nature, that replaces the PUAM and equate it in rights by having a considerable increase. The PUAM is currently not only not universal: it is equivalent to 80% of the already lean minimum retirement and elevates the retirement age for women at 65. The one of Union for the country ratifies the PUAM and that is 80% of the minimumand proposes two modifications: that women access from the age of 60 and that it is compatible with the perception of the widow’s pension.
The other four proposals start from the elimination of the pension moratorium and do not want to extend it. Instead they raise different variants of a proportional benefit. In this group is the opinion of Federal Meeting and the Radicals of Democracy foreverfollow the one of a PRO SECTOR (which was divided into the opinions), another of the UCR And a final text by the Civic coalition. The logic is that those who do not have the 30 years of contributions have a benefit composed of two parts. A common basic floor, which would be proportional to the contributions made by each person.
For example, the federal and democracy meeting text forever proposes that The common floor for its beneficiaries is 85% of the universal basic benefit (which in May was $ 135,600), and that is added to the contributions made proportional. They include as a condition that no one receives less than the PUAM (in May was $ 298,600). In turn, they establish that women can access this benefit from the age of 60 and men from 65, and that it can be compatible with a work in dependency relationship and another pension.
The other three opinions that propose a proportional benefit (of a sector of the PRO, the UCR and the civic coalition) contain similar logic but with some modifications with respect to that of the blocks led by Pichetto and Julian.
The opinion of Union for the Homeland It was the majority, with 33 signatures of a total of 80 that make up the budget commissions and making and forecast and social security. But they know that It is very difficult to achieve a majority in the enclosure to approve the extension of the pension moratorium. However, one of its members entrusted to this medium that, if the extension of the pension moratorium in the enclosure, “The proportional benefit is an alternative”. That is, Towards the session could accompany a common text With Federal Meeting and Democracy forever. From The left are critical of sustaining the Puam in 20% less than minimum credit, as promoted by the initiative of a proportional benefit.
It is not ruled out that the proportional benefit is accompanied by a sector of the PRO, the UCR and the civic coalition that have similar proposals. In that case, it could approach the necessary number to Avoid the presidential veto that all discounts that it will arrive if any of the initiatives are sanctioned.
How much to recover from everything lost? Proposals to increase retirement
Another group of proposed opinions on increased retirement. The common thing is that everyone question that the bonus is frozen at $ 70,000 since March 2024. But there are other differences.
Union for the Homeland proposes an increase Exceptional 7.2% For all the retirement and pensions that he rebukes what was lost since Milei assumed, and add that the bono pass from $ 70,000 to $115.000 and that is automatically updated by inflation as well as the current mobility formula.
He Left Front part of another logic. They propose that He recovers everything lost from 2015 to date, pointing to the government of Macri, Fernández and Mileiwith a 100% increase to all retirement to be a new floor. Del Caño, Castillo and Biasi They questioned the last three governments that were in charge of modifying retirement mobility before they imply a minimal improvement. They cited the judicial failures of several provinces that ratified that Only with the front of all retirees lost 50% on average due to high inflation and order the Executive Power to rebuild that loss. Was A counterpoint with deputy Julia Strada de Unión by the country who declared defender of the retirement mobility of the front of all, despite the great loss of purchasing power that implied as a result of not having accepted the clause of increasing by inflation that the left front made at the time.
In addition, the Caño and Castillo propose in their opinion that The amount of retirement is established by the cost of living of older adults: That the minimum is the value of the basic basket of the elderly calculated by the Ombudsman’s Office of CABA. According to the last data, A retiree needs at least $ 1,200,523 to live. This new floor of the minimum being, the left argues that it is updated due to inflation or evolution of private formal wages (Ripte), according to what is more beneficial. It contains other items such as 82% mobile and that resources to increase retirement are obtained from restoring patronal contributions to 33%, cancellation of the reduction of taxes on exporters and tax benefits to large entrepreneurs, special taxes to banks, among others.
Finally, Federal Meeting, Democracy forever and the civic coalition They propose that the bono pass from $ 70,000 to $100.000 and that becomes part of the credit that is updated by inflation with mobility. In addition, like union for the country, they set a increase of 7.2% only once for all scales.
La Libertad advances and allies
For the ruling party, it was Silvana Giudici of the Pro who defended the text about retirement that is a kind of “declaration of intent.” No deputy of La Libertad Avanza took the floor. The axis of your proposal is to defend the fiscal balanceeven at the expense of retirees and retirees mostly pay the adjustment. They added that a “Commission of Experts” that evaluates a more general pension reform. The pension reform is one of the IMF demands: They left sitting on several occasions that many retirements are paid in our country. With the new debt that Milei took with the international agency, the government assumed the commitment to go in the direction of removing more rights from retirees. Of the 12 members of the PRO in this plenary of commissions, there were 7 who signed this common text with freedom progresses. Los 5 other yellow deputies They were for the proportional benefit. It is still about to be seen if it is a punctual division or if it is going to climb at a break in the block. The elections in CABA this Sunday and the assembly of lists in the province of Buenos Aires can be decisive.
In the same the same line of the ruling is the opinion signed by the Cordobesa Alejandra Torres (Federal Meeting) and the Federal Innovation Block that includes missionaries, salteños and rionegrinos who have been accompanying freedom progress.
The persistence of retirees who mobilize every Wednesday against Congress was decisive for the legislative agenda to take the claim. As Nicolás del Caño said, “Retirees are the symbol of resistance against Milei’s adjustment”.
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