Currently 1,250,000 pensions are deliveredso it would mean a significant drop in them. The decision was made by alleged irregularities in the collection of assistance.
The determination was directed by order of the Executive Branch to the National Disability Agency (ANDIS), who will be in charge of carrying out the policy. Until now, They would not be the only pensions that are lowered.
What Diego Spagnuolo, head of ANDIS, said
Diego Spagnuolohead of the agency, was in charge of confirming the news. Thus, he pointed out that the libertarian administration is committed to controlling the organization.
In that sense, the leader expressed: “What previously worked without any type of control, we want to control it. Today we are in the process of reducing 200 thousand pensions.”
“In fact, a report was published by the Superintendence of Health Services where what is deduced is that what is being paid for the transportation of people with disabilities It’s equivalent to three round trips to the moon per month.s. “It’s outrageous,” the official exemplified during an interview.
Then he emphasized accordingly: “What we are looking for is optimize the system that as it is proposed today is unfeasibleand from every point of view. “More and more money is being paid for disability and transportation benefits.”
According to him, the figures come from “ineffective control of benefits and the increase in demand from providers”.
How pensions are administered
Of the total of 1,250,000 pensions that are currently delivered, the Milei government added 20 thousand new orders from December 2023, and It has 600 thousand cases under study.
Assistance is a coverage of $220,024a figure that represents 70% of a minimum retirement. Likewise, the agency reduced the percentage of disability per beneficiary.
This percentage Before it reached 76% affectation, and today it is 66%. “Whether 66%% 76% is a notable physical impairment, that is, it can be perceived with the naked eye,” argued the official.
Spagnuolo also revealed that in joint coordination between the Ministries of Health, Security and Justice, They managed to capture 14 fugitives who irregularly received a non-contributory pension for work disability.
The detainees were accused of aggravated robbery, attempted rape and other serious crimesso their pensions were taken away.
For its part, He denounced that irregular pensions were granted during the previous government in the provinces of Chaco, La Rioja, Tucumán and Ciudad de Buenos, which will be the first to be audited by the organization it leads.
“During Alberto Fernández’s period the requirements were greatly softenedand today there were basically three left: you have to be Argentine, if you are a foreigner, have a residence of 10 years; and not be in a situation of conflict with Justice, that is, detained or on the run,” the owner specified.
For this reason, the official stated that the agency began “case-by-case” audits of the total assistance given in the last four years. He also anticipated that he will advance with all the registered aid.
Source: Ambito
