Teacher retirements: no increase until June

The 200,000 retired national and university teachers national they will not get any raise in his possessions in April and May and They will have to wait until June so that the quarterly increase is applied to them.

Retired national teachers They have their own mobility which is calculated from the change in the salaries of teachers in service with contributions to the ANSeS, the so-called “Average taxable salary of teachers” (RIPDOC) and “Average taxable salary of university teachers” (RIPDUN).

The differentiated increases for retired national teachers are due to the fact that the pension laws of both sectors establish that of active workers They contribute two additional points (13% of salary) AND They retire with 82% of their mobile phones corresponding to the position held in activity.

“Only pensioners of Law 24241 (General Regime) receive the increases of the DNU 274/2024 while the special regimes (laws 24016, 22929 and 26508 of teachers and university professors) continue with the private mobility regime applied so far. “That DNU 274 /2024 does not mention anything in this regard. This will definitely provoke protest measures and actions from teachers unions,” lawyer Ariel Semana told Clarin.

Like the rest of the pensioners, the national teachers had a heavy loss in the purchasing power of their assets over the last 6 years above 35%.

Without considering the interim losses, consecutively between 2018 and the first quarter of 2024, in the case of retired national teachers (there are approximately 185,000), the sequence was as follows:

• In 2018, Retired teachers got two raises for a total of 22.3%, compared to an inflation of 47.6%. A drop of 17.1%.

• In 2019, the increase was 49.3% and inflation was 53.8%. A loss of 2.9%.

• In 2020 there was a partial recovery: the increase in teachers was 40.8% against an inflation of 36.1%. An improvement of 3.4%.

• In 2021, the increase was 50.6% compared to inflation of 50.9%. A drop of 0.3 points.

• In 2022: the increase was 84% ​​against an inflation of 94.8%. A drop of 5.5%. In 2022, the change of the semi-annual adjustment to a quarterly adjustment was approved, which helped mitigate losses due to high inflation.

• In 2023, The increase was equal to 146.54% against an inflation of 211.6%.. A loss of 20.9%.

• In the first quarter the decline continued as the increase in March was 27.57% against an inflation estimated at 54.4% (36.6% January-February + 13% March).

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