The National Government formalized the payment of a $ 70,000 bonus for retirees who receive the minimum, a measure that has been implemented in recent months. The decision was confirmed through Decree 145/2025, published in the Official Gazette. This benefit adds to the recent 2.21% increase in pension assets, announced last week.
The update is part of the monthly readjustment scheme of the National Social Security Administration (ANSES), Based on the evolution of the inflation measured by the Indec Consumer Price Index (CPI).
In this way, the beneficiaries of the pension system will receive the following amounts:
ANSES: Who will receive the entire bonus of $ 70,000
The holders that, adding all its current benefits, PErciban an equal or lower amount to be guaranteed pension minimal, established in article 125 of Law No. 24,241, They will receive the extraordinary bonus in their entirety.
On the other hand, the government clarified that those whose total income will exceed the guaranteed minimum being will receive a reduced bonus, whose maximum amount will be the necessary to reach the amount resulting from the sum of the minimum being the full bonus. In addition, it was specified that, to access this complement, the benefits must be in force in the same month in which the liquidation is made.
Likewise, the regulations establish that, in the case of pensions with multiple partners, The benefit will be considered as a single holder for the purpose of perception of the extraordinary bonus.
The impact of the bonus without update
For months, retired with lower income received a bonus of up to $ 70,000 as reinforcement. However, this benefit It was not incorporated as a monthly or adjusted by inflation, which has generated a progressive loss of its real value.
In addition, not being part of the retirement credit, The bonus is excluded from the calculation of the bonus, which represents an additional decrease for the beneficiaries. Having integrated after monthly, retirees would have received a proportional in the bonuses of June and December last year, which would have contributed to attenuate the loss of purchasing power.
On the other hand, Nominal increases in pension assets have been below inflation. In 2024, the minimum retirement with bonus rose 105.1%, the PUAM increased 99%and the PNCs grew by 95.1%.
Despite these adjustments, the year -on -year inflation by INDEC reached 117.8%, which meant a drop in purchasing power. In the case of retirees who receive the minimum, the loss was 5.8%, while The beneficiaries of non -contributory pensions (PNC) suffered a reduction of 8.6% in their purchase power.
Source: Ambito
