The Government announced a reinforcement of $20,000 for family allowances per child that will reach the workers of the lower income bracketwhich covers about 1.1 million families.
“We wanted to make it clear that we do not want any Argentine worker below the poverty line; This decision to reinforce and bring to 20 thousand pesos the family allowances of the lowest-income workers, one million throughout the country, has the objective of recovering the income of the workers, protecting and taking care of the fiscal order”, affirmed the minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, within the framework of the announcement.
From Escobar’s Buenos Aires party, together with the head of Anses, Fernanda Raverta, Massa said that “inflation is the poison that eats up the income of the vast majority of Argentine families.”
“Inflation is the poison that eats the income of the vast majority of Argentine families”Serge Massa
“While we are making decisions from the fiscal, monetary point of view, of the accumulation of reserves to expand inflationary expectations, it is important to reinforce the income of our workers because they cannot be the ones to pay in the supermarket for what they lost as a result of global problemsbut also bad economic decisions,” he said.
For his part, Raverta said that “we are going to implement a policy to reinforce the income of workers with children with lower salaries, workers in section one,” and explained that “an amount of 20 thousand pesos per child” will be assigned.
He assured that, with this reinforcement, “the homes of 1.1 million workers in Argentina” will be reached, adding: “Also We are going to embrace the sons and daughters of these workers, 1.8 million boys and girls.”
“On average there are two children per worker; So, we are talking about $40,000 of income that the State puts up with a strong economic commitment so that the families of workers with children with lower incomes can live a little better, and that there is no one below the poverty line,” Raverta stressed.
