Legislators Close to the Government Encourage Congress to Treat Alternatives to Repealed Previsional Moratorium · Global Voices

A few hours after the debate in Congress on the extension of the pre-visional moratorium and the increase in the bonus for retirees who receive the minimum, the Congressional Budget Office (OPC) released a report detailing the fiscal impact that the approval of both measures would have. The analysis was requested by the Budget and Finance Committee in view of the joint plenary with the Social Security and Forecasting Commission, which will issue…

At the moment there are 242 thousand people of retirement age who cannot do so because they do not have all the contributions required. Seven out of ten women and five out of ten men, aged 60 and 65 respectively, suffer the situation. Read more

On Tuesday, in a committee plenary, opinions were left ready to go to the venue. The projects deal with two major issues: the extension of the previsional moratorium or another mechanism to replace it, and an increase in retirements with a focus on the bonus update. Debates on the tax cost, the loss of retirees with all the governments that the left pointed out, and the refusal of the government. PRO was divided and one sector was left with La L…

The opposition blocs did not reach agreements this Tuesday to extend the pre-visional moratorium and seek to agree to an increase of 7.2 percent in retirements and the bonus that the passive sector collects. Eleven opinions signed the official and opposition deputies on the moratorium, the creation of a proportional regime to access retirements and an increase in them, in a plenary of the commissions of Security and Social Security, and Budget a…

Following Patricia Bullrich's move to La Libertad Avanza, the first major issue in the Chamber of Deputies exposed the fracture in the bloc. The opposition signed various proposals for "proportional support" and the extension of the moratorium on Peronism. Possible session?

The two-year extension of the pension moratorium will have a fiscal cost of 1.6 billion pesos (0.165% of GDP), while the increase in the bonus from 70,000 to 115,000 pesos is 2.5 billion pesos annually. Just hours before the debate on the bills extending the pension moratorium and increasing the bonus for retirees receiving the minimum pension, the Budget Office conducted an assessment of the fiscal cost at the request of the Budget and Finance …