translated from Spanish: Vidal announces reinforcement to canteens and increase to Bonaerens retirees

The Governor of Bonaerense, María Eugenia Vidal, will announce a package of social and SME measures, which sees increases in services for children, such as school food, reported today sources of the governorate. As transmended, there will be “20% increases in the School Food Service (SAE), of 15% in Child Development Units scholarships, 25% for Children’s Homes”, in addition to “a reinforcement of the More Life Plan and the Program for the Promotion, Preservation and Employment Regularization (PREBA)”. For the School Food Service there will be increases of 10% in September and 10% in October and a reinforcement of 1,000 pesos by September of the More Life Plan.
From the improvement in the SAE, “each lunch plate will reach 33 pesos and breakfast 20.90 pesos, which means a cumulative increase of 424% from the beginning of management.” The SAE guarantees daily breakfast, lunch and / or snack for 1,800,000 children from the 135 municipalities of the Province. Some of the improvements that were implemented in this program was the definition of a mandatory menu that guarantees a minimum floor of nutrients and in 2018 the Service was universalized so that all students of the public schools of the initial and primary level receive breakfast or snack,” they explained from the governorate. On the More Life Plan, they noted that “the Province accompanies month by month more than 600,000 people in social vulnerability: pregnant, nursing mothers and children until entering the primary school system. Help is received through a monthly transfer that is credited to a debit card for food purchase. A 1,000 peso booster will be provided in September.” On The Homes of Childhood, “in the Province 3,700 children who are victims of violence, abuse and neglect who are in foster care receive help. In September, a 25% increase applies, so households receive between $12,460 and $17,714 per boy per month.” Of the minimum retirement, they recalled that “at the beginning of August the Bonaerense government increased the minimum retirement by 45%. This is the sixth increase since 2015 and reaches more than 14,000 Bonaerense retirees and pensioners, who now charge a minimum of $10,400.” In the Employment Promotion, Preservation and Regularization Program there will be “a benefit of up to 5,000 pesos per month per employee, an initiative that will help sustain more than 25,000 jobs throughout the territory of Bonaerense,” they added. Regarding the PREBA, the Government of the Province explains that “as a result of the interventions of the Ministry of Labour of the Province, more than 6,700 jobs were sustained since the beginning of the management”.” In turn, thanks to the collaboration in conjunction with the National Government, more than 11,500 posts were maintained,” they said. In this note:

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