The government denied the cut in pension funds for retirees in the provinces

After the publication of the new decree (DNU 280/24) where it was announced the cut of the transfers that ANSES makes to the pension funds of 13 provinces, which generated the complaint of many governors, and that the Government has denied it, the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, maintained that “the amounts are foreseen”In dialogue with Radio Mitre, He stated that “the items are there, they were reassigned to issues of provincial items. There are two historical problems, the stock of debt that is not the responsibility of this government. They are debts contracted many years ago, of an amount that is difficult to clarify because there are pending audits””There are some provinces that owe and there are other provinces that are owed. But to clarify and not snowball with an issue that is not real, the monetary items that were in the 2023 budget, which is the one that was extended this year and whose items were updated now, are, that is, with nomination differences, but the amounts are foreseen,” he clarified. Then, when asked about the pension funds and whether they would go in other items, he replied affirmatively and that “the only thing that is under discussion, and that has always been under discussion, is what are the amounts to be transferred, which is the difficult part.” “The Nation owes several provincial savings banks, some have taken the issue to court and there are some amparos planned, but what is not defined is the amount to be transferred. But let’s stay calm with this,” he remarked. In this sense, he took care to emphasize that this has nothing to do with new agreements between the Casa Rosada and the governors and concluded by declaring that “what is legal, what is by law is not going to stop being recognized. Except that in order to pay it you have to be clear about what you are paying, sometimes there are exaggerations of what is proposed as a transfer demand. And it is an obligation of the public official who has to order the transfer to know what he is enabling.”

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