They affirmed that since the beginning of the management, “the economic policy achieved” that this basket and the total basic basket (CBT) “increase below the general price index (CPI)”.
He Government He assured that AUH and the feed card the Basic food basket (CBA). The portfolio of Human capital He held this in relation to January 2025 while “in December 2023, this same indicator barely reached 54.8% of the CBA” and added that together with the total basic basket (CBT) they increased below the General Price Index (CPI).
The Government ensures that the AUH and the feed card were again covered by 100% of the basic basket
The data follows from the last measurement of the CBA that calculates the INDECwhich in January registered an increase of 0.9%. “From the beginning of the management, the economic policy managed to make the basic food basket (CBA) and the total basic basket (CBT), which represent the basic goods of the economy, increase below the general price index (CPI)” Add the statement.
What the portfolio points out was achieved “contrary to what happened previously, which mostly affected the most vulnerable sectors. “ “This, together with the increase in social benefits (AUH and feed), continues to contribute to reducing poverty and destitution while the economy is reactivated,” added the portfolio of Sandra Petovello.
The Ministry also added that “since January 2024, the AUH had an increase of 362%, which represents an increase in their purchasing power over CBA of 145%”. In addition, they see their value in the feed country”.
The basic basket rose less than 1% in January: a family needed more than $ 1 million so as not to be poor
The cost of the total basic basket (CBT), which measures the poverty line, rose just 0.9% in January, The lowest data since INDEC began the new series, back in December 2016. Suba had the basic food basket (CBA), used to evaluate the threshold of destitution.
With these variations, a “guy” family, Composed of two adults and two children, he needed $ 453,384 in the first month of the year not to be considered destitute and $ 1,033,716 not to be considered poor.
It is worth remembering that the CBA is determined taking into account the essential nutritional requirements for an adult male between 30 and 60 years old, of moderate activity, to cover those needs for a month (equivalent adult). In turn, the official public statistics agency uses a population consumption basket from the information provided by the National Household Expenses Survey (ENGHO).
Source: Ambito
