With the Law on Retirement Approved the Chamber of Senators Today, the Retirements 7.2% will be increased and there will be a lean increase for the bonus that the minimum assets perceive. It is really a partial recomposition of the lost last year. Thus, the minimum that in July is $ 309,295, will amount to $ 331,564 (about 22 thousand pesos more), and having half of retirement and pensions that is around $ 520,000, will rise to $ 557,440.
Why a 7.2%increase? Because the government modified by decree retirement mobility last year, and in doing so in the “joint” recognized only an increase of 12.5% corresponding to the inflation of January 2024, when the price increase was 20.6%. Then 7.2% represent the necessary percentage to complement that “extraordinary increase” corresponding to a single month.
The pension mobility formula imposed by decree by Milei last year, although “guarantees” that they will not continue to lose with inflation, implies imposing a roof on the increases of retirees and crystallizes all the loss in previous years. Now it will now be “validated” by Congress itself in the new law. The loss of purchasing power retirement compared to 2015 is 47%, and for bonus minimums it is 34%.
Likewise, the law sanctioned this Thursday establishes a Increase from the minimum retirement bonus to $ 110,000which was frozen at $ 70,000 for more than a year, when in March 2024 the government left it fixed in that value. As the Deputies of the Left Frontto update the value of the bond according to the mobility formula itself that the government applied, today it should be an amount of more than double, in some $160.000.
In this way, the minimum assets with bond would be in $441.564 (Taking the amounts of July). It is a Total increase of $ 62,269o 16,4%. In the case of maximum assets, these would be $ 2.231,111, only 7.2% increase, as well as all bonus.
While it is a relief Very important for retirees, started with the tireless struggle in the streets, does not structurally modify the problem of the life of millions of retirees and retirees. But it implies an act of justice and a political coup to government adjustment and IMFand a starting point to fight for more claims.
In the debate in the Deputies, the left had proposed that the increase in retirement habars is 100% in all assets to rebuild the loss of purchasing power since 2015. And that the have minimal is equivalent to that established by the basic basket of the elderly, estimated in $ 1.200.523 calculated by the Ombudsman’s Office of CABA at that time.
Moratory: Good news for 220 thousand people
Another of the laws voted in favor of retirees was the Extension of the pension moratorium for two more years. The pension moratorium won on March 23, leaving without the possibility of retirement to those who do not reach 30 years of contributions representing the 70% of those who are age to do.
At that point, the proposal of the left had been the implementation of a Universal retirement benefit character life for those who are not beneficiaries of a retirement, pension or retirement of a contributory or non -contributory nature.
The Congress Budget Office (OPC) He estimates that some 220 thousand people They could obtain retirement through moratorium in the next two years, with a budget impact of 0.08% of GDP.
Milei: veto and repression of retirees, prize for speculators
President Javier Milei immediately assured that both laws approved today, together with the emergency in disability will be predisposed. With the excuse of “sustaining the fiscal surplus”, its only anchor in the totally unstable backward scheme, current account deficit (dollar output) and indebtedness, Milei blames retirees, disabilities, and even university or health, that its economic model does not work.
Rejects a Miserable increase of 60 thousand pesos to retirees of the minimumwhile paying on independence, some U $ S 4.2 billion to the creditors of the external debt, who speculated and bet against the country.
According to (OPC), the annual fiscal impact of the 7.2% increase for assets and $ 40,000 pesos for the minimum bonds is 0.68% of GDP in 2026 (0.42% and 0.26% respectively). It has no comparison, regarding the mass of resources for the payment of debt interest, which reaches 2.2% of GDP annually (Average between 2020 and 2024), while the sum of the expenditures of Interest and debt capital averages 12% of GDP.
The retirees gave an exemplary struggle, imposing the “resistance Wednesday” in Congress, with their courage facing the repression of Bullrich, and becoming the coordination pole of all the struggles, in contrast to the fragmentation and cowardice of the union bureaucracies. It is now that they conquered a relative improvement for their living conditions that You have to defend them, support them and follow their example. The fight continues against the veto of Milei and for the conquest of all its claims: A retirement that allows the end of the month, to recognize the effort of a lifetime, 82% mobile and access to health and medicines.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
