The values of individual income or family income that qualify for this benefit are updated annually.
Due to the failure to update the scales and ceilings, many official workers stop receiving family allowances or they go up the scale and begin to perceive a lower value.
What happens is that the values of individual income or family income that entitle them to this benefit are updated annually according to the evolution of the Average Taxable Remuneration of Stable Workers (RIPTE) between October of the two years immediately preceding.
The latest update corresponded to the variation of October 2021 vs October 2020 e returned 50.62%, which was applied in March. Meanwhile, from October 2021 to May 2022the RIPTE increased by 37%.
Thus, the IGF cap, which was $ 210,278, and the individual cap, which amounted to $ 105,139, rose to $ 316,731 and $ 158,366 respectively in March. And they remain unchanged, despite the increase in RIPTE.
This implies that the children of all workers who receive up to $ 158,366 are covered by the family allowance. But “if a member of the family group receives a gross sum exceeding one hundred and fifty eight thousand three hundred and sixty-six ($ 158.366, -), he is excluded from collecting family allowances for the family group”, explains ANSeS.
These values remain unchanged for one year, in the same way as the scales that give the right to the payment of differentiated benefits, decreasing according to the salary levels. For example, in the case of the family salary per child, it drops from $ 7,332 to $ 1,540 per child).
Therefore, those who receive a salary increase or improve their income, have a nominal reduction in the benefit and if they exceed the maximum limit, they cease to receive the family allowance directly. Here’s what’s going on.
Instead, family allowances are adjusted every 3 months according to the mobility formula, but not the scales and ceilings that give the right to receive this benefit.
Last year, due to higher inflation with frozen caps, about 900,000 children and adolescents, corresponding to more than 600,000 employees with dependent and / or mono-tax relationships, had stopped receiving allowances for exceeding the cap.
In March of this year, when the values were updated, they received the appropriations again, but since then the loss in the collection of the benefit has been repeated.
The annual update with an estimated inflation around 70/80% implies the loss of the benefit. To allow this loss to occur, the salary scales of the various segments that give the right to receive the benefit must be updated at least every 3 months, following the trend in inflation and / or salaries.
Although adjusted quarterly on the basis of quarterly pension mobility, the values of the family salary per child are decreasing, very low and do not cover the basic needs of a minor.
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Ishmael Bermudez
Source: Clarin
