Georgina Saldierna
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 18, 2024, p. 4
The programmable expenditure of the 2025 Federal Expenditure Budget project amounts to 6.5 trillion pesos, of which almost 70 percent corresponds to social development, that is, social protection, housing and community services, education and health.
However, of the 16 priority social programs of the current government, only two have an increase in their allocation for next year: that of the Rita Cetina Universal Basic Education Scholarship, with a growth of 51.6 percent, and 85.9 percent for the 200 Universities for Well-being Benito Juárez, with 85.9. The rest register decreases ranging from 0.3 to 15.4.
The most punished is Escuela es Nuestra, with a drop of 4,564.1 million pesos, which means 15.4 percent. In this way, it is contemplated that it will have 25 billion in 2025, against 29 thousand 45 that it had this year.
Analysis by the Ifigenia Martínez Center for Public Finance Studies of the Chamber of Deputies and the Morena bench itself indicate that the estimated budget in 2025 for priority social programs increased 4.5 percent compared to the current year, going from 769 thousand 382 million to 803 thousand 705.2. Among them are three recently created: the pension for women aged 60 to 64, which will have 15 billion pesos; the Rita Cetina Gutiérrez Universal Scholarship for Basic Education, with 78,840.7 million, and the House-to-House Health Scholarship, 2 billion.
With the first, it is planned to provide financial support of 3 thousand pesos every two months, and will begin with those aged 63 and 64, and then expand it to other age groups, while in municipalities with an indigenous or Afro-Mexican majority it will cover all from 60 to 64 from the beginning.
With the basic education scholarship, financial support will be granted to preschool, primary and secondary students in public schools to facilitate the completion of their studies, and the House by House Health plan seeks to improve the quality of life of older adults and people with disabilities. through nursing home visits starting in February 2025.
Regarding the programs that will have a budget decrease in 2025, it is mentioned that the Benito Juárez Universal Scholarship for Higher Secondary Education will have a reduction of 0.3 percent; fertilizers, 4 percent; Young People Building the Future, 4.1, and Young People Writing the Future, 0.3.
The Pension for the Welfare of the Elderly and the Pension for People with Disabilities registered a decrease of 0.3 percent each.
The Guarantee Prices for Basic Food Products program has a 4.3 percent reduction in its budget, while the Production for Wellbeing program has a 3.8 percent reduction.
Support for children of working mothers also presents a budget decrease of 0.4 percent; Sowing Life, 3.7, and Promotion of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing and Aquaculture, 13.3.
It should be noted that of the programmable spending planned for 2025, 69.7 percent, equivalent to 4.5 trillion pesos, is allocated to social development; 7.4 percent (481 thousand 190 million), to government activities, and 22.9 (1.4 billion), to economic development.
