With the beginning of 2023, the Government is preparing a series of measures that will especially benefit citizens who receive social assistance, since the coverage of the wow (Universal Child Allowance).
The announcement about the changes in the program will be formally done this Thursday by President Alberto Fernández together with Fernanda Raverta, head of the ANSES (National Social Security Administration), the entity in charge of transferring the assets to all the beneficiaries of the wow.
As it became known, the government will expand the wow for children and adolescents without parental care who live in residential or family care facilities. Likewise, the benefit will be extended to children and adolescents with disabilities, if they have a valid Unique Certificate of Disability.
From the Government they explained that “in order to guarantee access to social security benefits, 100% of the value of the wow” to the aforementioned population groups.
In other words, $9,795 of social assistance will be paid to children and adolescents with disabilities or without parental care who live in residential or family care devices.
To specify the measure, “ANSES will implement the deposit of funds and, according to the age of the minor, the referents or tutors designated for them must take into account their opinion in relation to the destination of these funds”, they detailed from the Casa Rosada.
They also reported: “In the event that the adolescent is included in the Accompaniment Program for the Discharge of Adolescents and Youth without Parental Care, the reference for opening and managing the bank account will be the same person who meets the companion function.
When will the announcement be made?
The announcement about the expansion of the Program It will be done this Thursday, from the Space for the Promotion of Rights that works at the Saturnino Unzué Institute. The presentation will be in charge of the president.
Present with him will be the director of ANSES, the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Tolosa Paz; that of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis, and the national secretary of Children, Adolescents and Family (SENAF), Gabriel Lerner.
