Retired: Alberto Fernández has announced that he will extend the moratorium on pensions

Alberto Fernández announced this Monday that he will extend the moratorium on pensions sanctioned in 2014 “Until Congress passes a new law”. She did so through a message posted on social media after meeting with the head of ANSeS, Fernanda Raverta.

“Today I met @FerRaverta to analyze the situation of retirees in Argentina and the measures to be taken expiry of the term of the pension moratorium sanctioned in 2014 ”, wrote the President.

According to Fernández, “the moratorium on pensions was an essential policy in our country to guarantee it millions of women elderly people can access the pension. “That’s why we decided to do it extend your term of office until Congress passes a new law, ”he said.

“In this way we strengthen our commitment to ensure that all older people, after a lifetime of work, can access retirement,” concluded the president.

At the end of June Kirchnerism had obtained the approval in the Senate of a pension debt payment plan, amid doubts about the impact that the measure will have on tax accounts and its effects on the agreement signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The proposal, which was delivered to the Deputies where votes are not guaranteedhas collected 38 adhesions, thanks to the support of the official party with the accompaniment of Alberto Weretilneck (Together we are Río Negro), Alessandra Vigo (Federal Cordova) e Chiara Vega (There is a future).

For its part, the Together for Change block voted in a split way why six rejected macrists the project and there was 18 abstentions.

Yes not extended, most women who reach 60 (one of the prerequisites for retirement) will not be able to do so because they are not aged 30 years of contributions. And they will not be able to access the Universal Senior Adult Benefit (PUAM), as the age of 65 is required to receive 80% of the minimum pension.

Indeed there would be effective extension of the retirement age of women (5 years) and a reduction in monthly credit.

What is the current standard

Due to the moratorium of Law 26.970, which expires on 23 July, women can retire at 60 years (born in 1962) by regularizing the contribution years until 2003. Therefore, a woman who 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 you to regularize services until 30 September 1993. Access is more difficult because it implies the regularization of fewer years of unpaid contributions.

The project sanctioned by the Senate is intended for people who have already reached or will reach retirement age in the next 2 years (60 years for women / 65 years for men) and do not have 30 years of contributions.

It allows to regularize the missing periods up to December 2008 through the “buy” the missing yearswhich will be discounted until 120 installments of the retirement credit obtained.

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