After Cristina Kirchner’s claim Due to INDEC poverty data and protest pickets, the government will advance this week in defining a strengthening for the poorest sectors and new price deals. On Saturday and Sunday the Minister of Economy worked with his team on this week’s agenda, within which a meeting with the head of ANSES, Fernanda Raverta, and the Minister of Social Development, Juan Zabaleta.
Massa has yet to define the amount it will allocate from the proceeds obtained from the “soybean dollar”. said program it allowed the entry of 8,126 million dollars and fiscal resources of over 200,000 million dollars. The provision provides for the creation of a fund to finance “a non-contributory monetary benefit of national scope that ensures adequate nutrition for people in situations of extreme vulnerability”.
As anticipated Clarione, The government plans to allocate over $ 70,000 million to ensure access to the food basket ($ 17,148 in August), after learning that poverty rose to 8.8% in the first half and reached 4.1 million. of people. It was the vice president who asked “a more precise and effective intervention policy in the and, at the same time, designing an instrument that strengthens food security in terms of poverty ”.
The idea is that the subsidy reaches around 2 million people, according to Social Development sources, and it will be taken into account whether people are beneficiaries of any unemployment benefit or social program, granted by the government, provinces, cities or municipalities. . Decree 576/2022 authorizes the Economy establish the share destined for social benefits and incentives for producers.
If it is confirmed that about one third of the proceeds would contain the greater poverty due to the acceleration of inflation, the Government it should incur a fiscal cost of around 1% of GDP. This is a calculation similar to that of the bill by Senator Juliana Di Tullio, close to Cristina, to guarantee a floor equal to the food basket for 1.7 million beneficiaries. The difference is that Massa wants it to be extraordinary and transitory.
If so, the measure would be considerably less expensive than the $ 200,000 million (2.26% of GDP) transferred by the government since May, when Martín Guzmán was still Minister of Economy and decided granting a one-time bonus of up to $ 18,000 to 13 million people, in particular single-tax payers, informal workers and retirees. Massa has already announced a strengthening of family allowances and another for retirees.
At the same time, from June the economy began to take a step forward and then Massa cut expenses, froze the employees’ premises and began to monitor social plans. The acceleration of inflation, however, has reactivated the protests of the trade unions and social movements. After camping out last week in front of Social Development and going to the Ministry of Labor, Unit of Piquetera it will launch more than 20 cuts in the country this week if there is no response.
The internal trade secretary, on the other hand, is trying to “hasten” the renewal of Cared Prices by the end of this week, with the inclusion of leading brands and a smaller basket. The program expires this Friday and will be the subject of conversation this Monday at the meeting of the Chamber of Food Industries (COPAL). The government too tries to close the new stage of Careful Cuts this Monday with refrigerators.
Source: Clarin
