The Ministry of Social Development (Mides) found at the beginning of August, after a survey, that 11,500 beneficiaries of family allowances Plan de Equidad do not go to classes or are not enrolled and according to the regulations, they must regularize their situation so as not to lose the benefit.
In this framework and in the face of such a situation, the minister of the portfolio, Martín Lema, had announced that the families of these children and adolescents would stop receiving family allowances if they are not enrolled in the educational system. However, from the Mides they said that they would make contact with the cases in search of regularizing the situation.
“There is already a quantity that has been regularized. Today, those who would be suspended are around 10,700. But in a preliminary list there were 11,500,” Lema said at a press conference.
Meanwhile, Lema recalled that, when the measure was announced, it was said that it covered two aspects. “On the one hand, it is a decision taken to suspend this benefit in those homes where there is no compensation for sending minors to educational centers; among other things, for the future of these minors, who have the right to be educated and to have tools,” said Lema, adding: “But also, in parallel, we said that we were going to take measures to contact these homes, looking for regularize as soon as possible”.
“Contacts are already being established in different ways. For example, notifications have been being sent through the BPS for days, either through text messages or other available means. The Mides through alerts from mobile offices, telephone services, and technicians who work in the territory”, explained the minister.
