Although government estimates project an AUH expense similar to the current one, the elimination of the current indexing system would enable the liquefaction of that amount if inflation is higher than expected.
The official initiative also wants to cut the expense in prevention of teenage pregnancy and sex education.
Within the large amount of modifications included within the Budget 2026 that announced the government of Javier Milei, one of them is The elimination of the update mechanism that currently have universal child assignment (AUH) and the rest of family assignments.
The novelty follows from the analysis of the items related to social rights in the 2026 budget project that carried out the Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ).
There, it stressed that although “The budget project proposes an investment similar to that of recent years”there is also a “central concern,” as a result of the fact that article 73 of the official regulations propose the repeal of the update mechanism currently in use via the elimination of articles 1, 3 and 4 of Law 27,160.
Sanctioned in 2015, had the Automatic mobility of family assignments, tied to retirement updates. That means that, after the modification of the retirement update formula that this government carried out, They are also updated to inflation.
“If inflation is significantly underestimated, this could lead to a liquefaction of the benefit and a loss in the social protection of girls, boys and adolescents,” they warned from ACIJ. According to the 2026 budget estimate, Inflation would be 10.1% for next year.
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What are the affected family assignments?
In addition to the Auhthe following social benefits that would be achieved by this modification are:
- Son assignment
- Son assignment with disabilities
- The prenatal assignment
- Annual School Assignment
- Birth assignment
- Adoption allocation
- Marriage assignment
- Pregnancy assignment for social protection
- Integral health care assignment
Within that group, the most important benefits are Auhwith 4,113,370 headlines in 2025, according to the calculations of the government itself in the budget, and the assignment for son, which has 4,107,320.
The cuts in pregnancy prevention and esi
On the other hand, from ACIJ they also alerted the strong reduction in the heading corresponding to the National Plan for the Prevention of Non -Intentional Pregnancy in Adolescence (ENIA Plan), which the 2026 budget expects to reduce by 85% compared to the level of 2025. “In 2026 less than 3 % of what was invested in 2023” would be executed “compared.
In this sense, they warned that “in terms of integral sexual education activities, under the orbit of the Ministry of Education, The budget for 2026 is just $ 239 million, 2% of what was spent in the game in 2023“
Source: Ambito
