This Wednesday, February 15, the Picket Unit He will return to the streets to protest the almost 160,000 casualties of Potenciar Trabajo, for which he will carry out a massive mobilization in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Social Development.
the picketers They warned that there will be cuts on July 9 and that they have planned camps due to the lack of responses from the organization led by Victoria Tolosa Paz, since, until now, the Ministry has not generated an agreement with the Picket Unit.
Just a week ago, the Picket Unit advanced cuts in the main access routes to the City of Buenos Aires, however, in the face of the heat wave, it decided to suspend its measure of force.
This way, The social organizations will resume their protest this Wednesday to claim for the casualties of Potenciar TrabajoBecause for the piqueteros it is about “layoffs” within the framework of “a government adjustment plan to pay the IMF.”
User cancellations occurred after a mandatory data validation process began, which can be done until March. In this regard, social organizations ensure that many holders do not have Internet access to carry out the process.
For this reason, they have requested that Ministry agents go to the neighborhoods and look door to door for the holders of the program so that the corresponding validation can be made.
For their part, from the Ministry they maintained that “if the Picket Unit If you were genuinely concerned about making the list of holders of Potenciar Trabajo transparent, you would be collaborating in the task of helping biometric revalidation of the program to those people”.
The problems with validation
Despite the fact that the majority of the Potenciar Trabajo register has already completed the validation process, which is mandatory to receive social assistance, many people have not been able to do it, according to what they say the picketersdue to system access problems.
In this regard, Silvia Saravia, National Territorial Coordinator of Libres del Sur, explained: “We detected 4,500 casualties with different types of claims. There were many problems for face validation. People who wear glasses or have a problem with facial paralysis, for example. Another group of around 500 completed the validation and now they appear suspended”.
