Retirements: they extend the moratorium for women which expires in July

In 50 days (23 July) the possibility for women to retire due to a moratorium will expire. Faced with this situation, the senators of the Victory Front enrolled in Kirchnerism presented a bill of “payment of the social security debt” so that men and women can complete their 30 years of contributions and access the pension.

However, a dozen MPs from the same sector argue that the parliamentary “times” would lead to the fact that, if this project is approved, It would only be sanctioned long after July 23, leaving many people without income for an uncertain period.

This is why they propose (which implies a shorter and simpler parliamentary procedure) for an extension “Until a regime of regularization of social security contributions by private individuals is established by law”, the current moratorium on women between the ages of 60 and 64 for non-regular services from the age of 18 until December 2003.

In case of men proposes to restore the validity of the moratorium for one year (Law 25.865) for those who turn 65 from the sanction of the bill.

Among others, the project is signed by Gisela Marziotta, Juan Carlos Alderete, Hilda Aguirre, Anahí Costa and Mabel Caparrós.

According to social security data, in 2021, 222,805 people retired using the moratorium and between January and May 96,193 people, in both of them almost half of the total retirements.

Consequently, in the basis of the bill it is said that, if the moratorium is not extended, starting from July 23, for unemployment and informality, thousands of women will not be able to retire. To a greater extent, women are more affected by unregistered work and unemployment.

Due to the moratorium of Law 26.970, which expires on 23 July, women can retire at 60 (born in 1962) by regularizing the contribution years up to 2003. Therefore, a woman who has turned 18 in 1980 can justify 23 years of contribution and must have 7 years between actual contributions after that date and services for care tasks (children ).

Meanwhile, men and women have another moratorium law (Law 24.476) which is permanent and allows services to be regularized until 30 September 1993. It is more difficult to access because it implies the regularization of fewer years of unpaid contributions.

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