Amaro dedicated his hearing on radio Carve to refer to a statement that he will make before the Board of Directors of the BPS in the session next Wednesday, April 20.
In this regard, he announced that he will propose to the Board of Directors of the BPS that they request the Executive Power to advance the winter basket and that the universe of the July adjustment be expanded.
He explained that his proposal is due to the fact that in January 2021 a “process of deterioration of the income of retirees and pensioners began, with adjustments below inflation and, as a consequence, a lower performance of social benefits.”
Amaro questioned the “insensitivity of the government in having discounted the advance of July last year, of 246 pesos, from the January adjustment, something contrary to what had been done since 2007. This motivated the increase in minimum liabilities to not be 6 .16%, like the rest of retirees and pensioners, but 4.14%”.
Inflation
The representative of the liabilities before the BPS said that the accumulated inflation between January, February and March reached 4.42%, for which “the increase in January has already been eaten.”
“Not only has quality of life been lost in this proportionality, of 4.42%, but in the products that we consume the most, the increases were double or triple the increase in January,” he said.
On the other hand, he again rejected the modification of the calculation of the Bases of Benefits and Contributions (BPC) that was previously carried out due to inflation, but that the current administration began to adjust based on the Average Salary Index, a minor variation with respect to the first variable.
Such modification leads to the payment of the Social Security Assistance Tax (IASS) “a greater number of retirees and pensioners who did not pay before”, and that “a significant number of workers who did not pay Personal Income Tax Physical (IRPF) “now also pay”.
