According to data from the consulting firm Politikon Chacothe expense accrued for the FONID was $46,855 million. This money comes from a special internal tax that is applied to cars and motorcycles, with a specific allocation and therefore falls into the universe of non-automatic transfers.
The report distinguishes the spending “accrued” that is, when the payment obligation is generatedfrom the moment the obligation is cancelled.
Thus it is proposed that Last month only less than 1% of the amount for the Education concept was transferred to the governors, which is what makes up the FONID. In statistical terms they were about 12 million pesos to distribute among more than 1.2 million teachers throughout the country (data from the Argentinos por la Educación portal).
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When salaries are settled January, provincial governments will have to compensate for that additional or teachers will see a decrease in their income in their pay stubs. In the case of the province of Buenos Aires it represents approximately 5% of the manual salary.
The amount is not less, since in the case of a graduate teacher from the province of Buenos Aires with a monthly salary of $312,400 in hand, the amount of the DONID is $16,450.
Alejandro Pegorarodirector of Politikon Chaco, pointed out to Ambit that “In the historical average, 25% of the non-automatic transfers accrued correspond to the FONID, but this month (in January) they were 91%, because the rest of the expenses disappeared.”
Pegoraro considered that, if the Government remains in the position of not sending the money for the teachers The governors “will try to pay with their own funds for at least two or three months.” That already happened at other times and then the payments were regularized.
It must be taken into account that, although they are not automatic transfer funds, as are the co-participatory funds that, as they are collected, are sent to the provincial treasuries, Most discretionary spending is protected by law and, therefore, the Central Government is obliged to send them, sooner or later.
“It already happened other times there was a delay. In January, in general, it is not paid and then it is updated in subsequent months,” explained Pegoraro. However, in the current context of political confrontation, it cannot be ruled out that some of the expenses that are not being formalized now could end up in a legal dispute.
Zero pesos for retirements
He The head of Politikon Chaco warned that, in January, for example, no funds were transferred to the provincial funds. These are Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Chaco, Chubut, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Formosa, La Pampa, Misiones, Neuquén, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe and Tierra del Fuego. And he anticipated that “this is going to generate a conflict.”
The case of Governor Valdés
During January the governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Valdeswas one of the leaders of the opposition who showed himself to favor of the approval of the Law Buswhich finally came out with the current cuts.
That monththe Provincial Treasury received $1,000 million in Contributions from the National Treasury (ATN). ATN are the most discretionary expenses of all, because the Executive Branch can allocate them any way it wants. Corrientes was the only one to receive a figure that, according to Pegoraro, is politically relevant.
Also is true that, In January, Corrientes was affected by a storm that caused flooding of fields and loss of resourcesin a province that was previously hit by drought and grass fires.
Source: Ambito