The value of the Basic Pensioners Basket is $685,041, according to the calculations of the Guarantor for the elderly. This is an increase of 239% compared to a year ago.
Compared to October 2023 (previous measurement), the increase is 118.73%
The $685,041 is a far cry from that the minimum pension ($134,445) which including the $70,000 bonus amounts to $204,445. And the average income of pensioners who did not resort to the moratoriums is $299,407.
For their part, non-contributory pensions are equivalent to 70% of the minimum asset plus bonus and the PUAM (Universal Elderly Pension) is equivalent to 80% of the minimum asset plus bonus.
These measurements include accommodation costs and the drugs category includes a variety of drugs for different pathologies, considering the discount given in the pharmacy based on the pensioner’s social service, ranging from 40 to 80%, he clarifies the Ombudsman’s report.
The $685,041 is broken down into:
- Food: $197,610
- Cleaning: $93,190
- Pharmacy supplies: $45,220
- Medicines: $108,717
- place of life: $117,000
- Transport: $46,0000
- Recreation: $26,000
- Dress: $25,000
- Services: 26,394
THE the loss of pension benefits was very serious during the government of Mauricio Macri (-19.5% between September 2017 and December 2019), then they decreased again with the increases by decree of Alberto Fernández granted in 2020 and with the mobility formula implemented starting from 2021, with greater intensity among those who did not receive any bonus.
This month of Marchretirements had an adjustment of 27.18%if in January and February inflation was 36.6% plus an estimate of 15% for March, it would be around 57%.
According to Eugenio Semino, Defender of the Elderly, “the new data from the Basic Basket of Pensioners ratifies the situation of precariousness and poverty into which the sector is increasingly sinking. It’s not that pensioners continue to feel bad, it’s that they are getting worse and there is no prospect that the situation will reverse.”
At this point, the bill that the Government intends to send to Congress proposes, regarding retirements from the general scheme, to grant an increase of 13.2% in April – which was the February inflation – plus another 10%. as compensation for the worsening of these. months: overall at 24.52% against an inflation of 57%. And from now on adjust salaries by the CPI with a delay of 2 months.
The official project concerns pensions and pensions of the General Scheme. That is, it does not include, among others, retired teachers, university professors, diplomats, Luz y Fuerza and the judiciary.
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Source: Clarin
