During the coming months, the National Congress will be the main scene of voting, debates and decisions that will fully impact the lives of Argentines. In that context, after the fall of the first written feature, the discussion about the omnibus law which the Chamber of Deputies will discuss starting Monday, emerges as a new legislative battle that will pit the Government against a good part of the opposition. And although the new version of the omnibus law incorporates numerous initiatives, there is one that particularly begins to worry a large part of the people of Mendoza: the elimination of pension moratorium Raised by Javier Mileiwhich would leave a large number of people without the possibility of retire.
In summary, law 27,705 of pension moratorium provides a payment plan for people old enough to access a retirement but at the same time they do not have 30 years of contributions. Approved in February 2023, the initiative allows two options. The first is proposed for people of retirement age but who did not contribute enough to cancel that pension debt. In these cases, a maximum period of 120 installments is granted and the possibility of canceling deficits prior to 2008. In addition, people who today are ten years away from what the law requires, have pension debt and it is proven that the contributions are insufficient to access a retirementare authorized to cancel these shortages, as long as they do not occur after March 2012.
For its part, the national government decided to anchor its main argument in the search to grant differential treatment to those who did comply with the necessary contributions to access a retirement. This position, partly logical, ignores a detail. The reality of the national economy. In Argentina, at least, there are 8 million people who work in the informal economy, that is, they are not registered. This means that there are thousands of workers who contribute to the development of the country but who do so clandestinely.
Once approved in 2023, the last moratorium allowed about 10,000 Mendoza residents to retire. Today, according to Anses data that he was able to access MDZIn the province there are 10,000 more people in a position to access the benefit but who would not be able to do so if Law 27,705 is finally repealed.
On the other hand, in dialogue with MDZ Radiothe pension and labor lawyer and former national deputy, Marisa Uceda, stated on Friday, April 26, that the repeal of the law “subjects people of retirement age to a system that already exists, which is not new, which is the PUAM (Benefit Universal for Older Adults) which represents 80% of the minimum retirement. The problem is that the requirement is to be 65 years of age, and since it does not modify the rest of the pension legislation.
And he added: “Women who are 60 years old and have been ordered to retire by their employers until they are 65 are not going to have a benefit that covers them. We have a big legal gap. Women who have worked and, let’s suppose that today they do it blank, but “Those who do not meet the necessary number of years of contribution cannot access this PUAM because they are not 65 years old.”
