A Social Development report to the Federal Public Revenue Administration revealed that 253,184 beneficiaries of the social planslike Empower Work, should not receive the monthly payment of 27,275 pesos for the four hours of work they do.
The incompatibilities with social plans that were registered are the purchase of solidarity dollars or savings dollars in the last six months and the presentation of affidavits of Personal Assets. This is not allowed to the beneficiaries of the aforementioned Program work incentive.
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The report that communicates these breaches of regulations to receive social plans it was requested on June 30, by the then Minister of Social Development, Juan Zabaleta. It is assumed that when the information reaches the hands of the new Minister of Social Development, Victoria Tolosa Paz, those who violate the rules of the Program.
The information crossing was carried out on the statistics of 1,383,279 holders of the program. This task, which took four months, detected 253,184 cases (18.3%) that made a “patrimonial manifestation in the affidavits of Personal Assets”. Also, 35,398 of the beneficiaries (2.56%) “had made some purchase of foreign currency for savings purposes in the last six months.”
The ban on Empower Work
On the other hand, the president, Alberto Fernández, signed decree number 728, which prohibits the entry of new beneficiaries to the Empower Work plan and those who are discharged will not be replaced. It was clarified that the funds acquired from this regulation would be destined to the acquisition of machines and tools for new undertakings.
This decree is also signed by Tolosa Paz; Sergio Massa, Minister of Economy; Juan Manzur, Presidential Chief of Staff; Gabriel Katapodis, from Public Works and “Kelly” Olmos from the Ministry of Labor.
The text that is in the Official Gazette specifies that “The number of holders of the following programs may not be increased: National Program for Socio-productive Inclusion and Local Development ‘Promote Work’, ‘Promote Youth Inclusion’, ‘Nexo’ and ‘Plus Essential’”.
