A report revealed that A retiree who perceives the minimum having spent 14.21% of your income only to pay Light services. In detail, the percentage almost tripled From the assumption of Javier Milei in December 2023.
The survey was made by the NGO, defense of users and consumers (Deuco). The data were collected by taking as a reference Three types of monthly consumption.
The percentage of retirement destined to pay the light tripled in the Milei era
To prepare the report, the NGO made monthly consumption by 150kwh, 350kwh and 150kwh, which places the retired average user at level 2 of the tariff segmentation provided by Decree 332/2022, a group that establishes the major Electric power subsidy level.
As detailed by the report, “the Argentine society sector most punished for the adjustment of the Milei government, are retirees, whatever their income level.”
To calculate the percentage that must be allocated to the payment of the light, Deuco used the minimum of July 2025, located at $ 309,293 – without counting the bonus – and compared it with the same data of the month of November 2023, when the minimum retirement was located at $ 110,558.
In this sense, for those retirees who have a consumption of 500kwh per month The percentage destined to pay the light reaches 14.21% – which represents a balance of $ 43,670.15 -, almost triple what required in 2023, when it was 4.72% (approximately $ 5,219.15).
For consumption around 350kwh, The cost means 5.94% of its income, while in November 2023 that figure was 3.9%. Finally, for consumption of 150kwh, the real amount doubledlocated at 2.55% unlike 1.11% measured over the last month of the management of the former president, Alberto Fernández.
The increase in September retirement is already known: how much will it be and how the minimum is
The National Government announced on Wednesday a 1.9% increase in retirement, pensions and assignments of the pension system, which will begin to be governed from September 2025. The decision was announced a few hours after the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) reported that July inflation was also 1.9%, a value that is used as a reference for the adjustment.
The increase occurs in a tension framework after the presidential veto to the rise for retirees that Congress had approved days ago, and while the mobilizations of this sector continue demanding improvements in its income. Thus, the values were set at:
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Minimum retirement: $ 320,220.69
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Universal pension for the elderly (PUAM): $ 256,150.11
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Non -contributory pension: $ 224,123.50
Source: Ambito
