The government confirmed that tomorrow it will deposit a $10,000 bonus for holders of the Empower Work program

The government confirmed this Friday, the payment of a bonus of 10 thousand pesos for holders of the Potentiate Work program, which in some cases “is already deposited”, while the rest will be obtained tomorrow, Saturday, December 16. Although the measure was reported by the recent Ministry of Human Capital – which brings together the portfolios of Education, Social Development, Labor, Employment and Social Security – in charge of Sandra Pettovello, it had been announced by the administration of Alberto Fernández (through the Ministry of Social Development). You may also be interested in: CAF approved the US$960 million loan for Argentina to pay the IMFIt should be recalled that at the beginning of December (on the 5th), the adherents of the program received an amount of $78,000, the equivalent of 50% of the Minimum, Vital and Mobile Wage (SMVM), which is currently $156,000. Along with this initiative, the previous government had brought forward the payment of the $10,000 to reinforce the previous bond, which was finally confirmed on the delivery date. For his part, the current Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, guaranteed – within the framework of the announcement of the measures of the administration initiated with the mandate of Javier Milei – that “the amounts of these plans will remain frozen in accordance with the provisions of the 2023 Budget”. You may also be interested in: Caputo: “Dollarization and the closure of the Central Bank continue to be an objective”In the same statement, he detailed that “the value of the Universal Child Allowance will be doubled and that the amount of the Food Card will increase by 50%”.What is the Empower Work Program? It is a plan with the aim of promoting full social inclusion for people who are in a situation of social and economic vulnerability. It unifies the previous programs of We Make the Future and Complementary Social Wage into a single initiative, guaranteeing improvements in employment and generating new productive proposals through the development of socio-productive, socio-community, socio-labor projects, and support to complete educational studies. To maintain ownership of the program, the plan is free and can be accessed from the miArgentina application in the “My Collections” option or go to the nearest reference center (of the former Ministry of Social Development).

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