The National Disability Agency (Andis) approved this Monday a plan to improve the disability certification process that seeks to amplify the territorial deployment and promote the elimination of the expiration date of the Unique Certificates of Disability (CUD).
The measure was made official through the publication in this Monday’s edition of the Official Gazette of Resolution 113/2023, which bears the signature of the executive director of Andis, Fernando Galarraga.
“Approve the ‘Plan for the Promotion, Improvement and Strengthening of Disability Certification'”specifies the rule in the first article.
To themselvesThe formation of an “Interdisciplinary Implementation Board” is established.which will be in charge of the design, development, implementation, execution and monitoring of the corresponding measures linked to the new plan.
Among the recitals, the text indicated that “it is necessary to consider, analyze, develop and execute complementary measures and actions that deepen the reduction of barriers and bureaucratic burdens, and that improve and strengthen the bond of citizens with disabilities with this essential tool of access to rights”.
In line with the Resolution, Andis published a statement where he defines the new plan as “a comprehensive proposal in order to improve the processes and current regulations for the certification of disabilities, based on administrative optimization, the amplification of territorial deployment and the strengthening of the proactive role of the State in the linking and accompaniment of people with disabilities”.
Among the highlights of the project The agency highlighted the debureaucratization of the procedures for requesting and granting the certificate, and the updating of the regulations aimed at determining the issuance of the CUD without expiration.
He also stressed the need to develop a territorial deployment to strengthen the link of people with disabilities and their families with the processes related to certification, at the local level; and the importance of implementing technological tools that facilitate the access of people with disabilities to the CUD and the procedures derived from it.
Secondly, The Resolution recalled that for the design of the plan, the articulated survey work carried out by the National Directorate of Policies and Regulation of Services was taken into account. with the various provincial jurisdictions and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, through the Interdisciplinary Evaluation Boards, and the opinions collected in the various institutional spheres for the promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities, such as the Federal Council on Disability (Cofedis ) and other mechanisms for dialogue with civil society.
Also, the text highlights that the design was elaborated echoing the contributions and claims of the group of people with disabilities at the national levelreceived within the framework of the open, plural, participatory and federal call for a New Disability Law, promoted by Andis.
Finally, the agency reported in the statement that “for each of the lines of work contained in said plan, the complementary Resolutions will be issued over the next few weeks that allow their implementation at the federal level and progressively in stages, safeguarding people with disabilities and the validity of their benefits”.
