In just nine months, 800,000 mothers or fathers of over 1.3 million girls and boys they stopped collecting the family salary for son.
According to the social security system, last March 2.5 million parents of 3.9 million girls and boys received this subsidy. And in December, 1.7 million registered workers picked it up for 2.6 million boys and girls, according to Social Security records.
This decrease is explained by the lack of update salary cap for receiving Family Allowances. This means that registered workers with minor children suffer a further loss of income to which they are already getting in their salaries due to higher inflation.
The family wage is paid for children up to the age of 18. There are no age limits for disabled children.
He gross salary cap (gross of withholdings) which gives the right to the collection of family allowance remains unchanged in $158,366. By law, that ceiling adjusted once a yearin the payment of benefits since March, but due to very high inflation, it should be updated, at least quarterly, by the Executive Branch.
ANSeS clarifies it thus: “If a member of the family group receives a gross amount exceeding one hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-six pesos ($158,366.-), the family unit is excluded from the collection of family allowances”.
This ceiling is updated once a year, in March, on the basis of the annual evolution of the RIPTE (Taxable Remuneration of Permanent Workers) starting from the previous October.
In March, the individual income ceiling is expected to rise to $283,220, with which many workers would be paid again of the family salary, without recovering what was lost.
Meanwhile, the amount from which income tax begins to be deducted is $404,062. Given this gap between the family salary ceiling and the earnings floor, despite the hike in March, there would be boys and girls who would remain without any coverage because the parents will not receive child benefit nor will they be able to deduct it from Earnings.
If the individual income ceiling for the collection of family allowances were unified with the minimum starting from which the Income Tax is taxed, about 590,000 holders and 945,000 boys and girls could join the family allowance systemaccording to social security data.
A further bias occurred because the government updated child support in line with inflation exclusively for dependent workers with gross family income below $131,208 per month (Grade 1). In these cases, the family salary for an employed child’s daughter or son rose from $10,126, effective October 2021, when an overtime bonus was approved, to $20,000.
Instead for the Single taxpayers In the lowest categories, the family wage per child remained at $10,126.
For the rest of the workers, if each member of the household earns less than $158,366, the amount of family salary under the mobility formula this year through December increased by 72.5% against inflation of 94, 8%. A loss of more than 20 points.
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Source: Clarin
