The social organizations grouped in the block UPicket Unit (UP) The main accesses to the city of Buenos Aires and neuralgic points in different parts of the country will be cut off this Tuesday, starting at 9, in what they have called the “National pickaxe”in protest against the “Potenciar Trabajo” plans.
The main interruptions to traffic from the province of Buenos Aires to the Federal Capital will occur at Pueyrredón Bridge, La Noria Bridge, West Access, the Pan-American Highway and the La Plata-Buenos Aires Highway, the organizers reported.
The national protest is in demand for the “almost 160,000 casualties of the Potenciar Trabajo plan” and the request that the registration for the renewal of benefits “can be completed in person because there are families that do not have connectivity” to the Internet, he declared. to Télam the referent of the Polo Obrero, Edward Belliboni.
Sources from the Ministry of Social Development told Télam that “all the organizations knew the implications and consequences of the revalidation process. There are no surprises, there are no cuts, there are no casualties; there was a long process of revalidating data so that we can properly manage program assignment.”
“The holders who validated their identity in Mi Argentina and meet the program requirements were not suspended. The 154,441 holders who have not yet carried out the validation will be paid 50% of the amount corresponding to the month of January. However, still they have the instance ‘validation out of term’ that will be evaluated by the Secretary of Social Economy and to date 20,157 people have already made the claim,” they added.
But Belliboni ratified the demonstrations on Tuesday after, according to what he said, “we did not get a response” from the Ministry of Social Development about the casualties due to the lack of registration in the Mi Argentina application, as requested by the national government.
In a statement it was explained that there will be “access cuts, routes and bridges in more than 130 points in the 24 provinces.”
According to the UP, due to the suspension of those plans to “Promote Work” for those who did not complete the registration, “these families will be left without half of their income and in March the entire amount will be lowered.”
Belliboni urged that the Ministry of Social Development carry out a “review of the registration procedure”, since, he insisted, there are families that receive the plan that “do not have the resources or connectivity” to meet this requirement.
He told this agency that “until today we had no response, that is why we confirm tomorrow’s pickets.”
“We defend each comrade who needs this program,” the UP announced in its statement and at the same time criticized “the pro-government organizations” that “did not open their mouths to defend the affected comrades, much less mobilize as we did from the Unit picketer”.
— eduardo belliboni (@EBelliboni) February 4, 2023
Meanwhile, the ministerial sources ratified that “it is important that the UP organizations go looking for those who did not validate. It is understood that the organizations certified these people every month, therefore the UP Management Units have to to be able to reach those who did not go through the validation process”.
“There is no cut, there are no casualties. What did take place was a long process of data revalidation so that we can correctly manage the allocation of the program. The UP organizations cannot ignore that this process would end in this way. Those who do not validate they unsubscribe. They knew it for more than two months. It is not a surprise to anyone,” the spokesmen emphasized.
And they maintained that “we are accompanying everyone so that they have a mechanism not to lose the program if it corresponds to them.”
