The Considered approved the process that the former president began last December Alberto Fernandez to receive his lifetime allowance as a former president, also called privilege retirement, as confirmed by government sources to THE NATION. The processing of the salaries that Fernández will receive was approved in just two months and the net value that he would receive is around 7 million pesos. In addition, Fernández will retroactively collect retirement benefits for January and February.
The Anses is in charge of the lawyer Mariano of the Heros after the departure of Osvaldo Giordano. With the last update, the minimum pensions remained at $171,217, and that is the value that almost 65 percent of the holders of the general regime will receive in April, while the maximum grosswent from $904.690 a $1.152.122. Alberto Fernández will receive a net amount equivalent to the amount of about 40 minimum salaries.
The law establishes that the amount to be received by the former presidents will be equivalent to the remuneration of the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and that the vice presidents will receive 75% of said amounts. To update the amounts, the guidelines for what happens with the income of supreme judges are followed. For her two privileged retirements, Cristina Kirchner received $9.5 million in hand from the State in February.
The national representative Graciela Ocaña He challenged the procedure before it was approved and gathered signatures so that Fernández’s petition would be rejected. According to the change.org platform, he gathered 58,000 endorsements. One of the arguments raised by Ocaña was the fact that Fernández actually resided abroad, while one of the requirements of Law 24,018, which implements lifelong monthly allowances for presidents, establishes that the beneficiaries of that regime must be domiciled. in the country. This Tuesday, Ocaña questioned De los Heros and Javier Milei on the X network for having granted Fernández his privileged retirement.
Shortly after leaving the presidency, Fernández traveled to Madrid with Fabiola Yanez and their son. He visited Buenos Aires weeks ago and, with a clear loss of political support, requested leave from his position as president of the National Justicialist Party (PJ). Added to this panorama was the outbreak of the insurance scandal. for which he is already facing judicial problems. He was charged during the month of February in the case that investigates the plot of contracting millionaire insurance contracts by different companies and State agencies during his government. His friend and insurance broker are also charged. Hector Martinez Sosa y Alberto Pagliano, former president of Nación Seguros. Anses, for example, paid 1.7 billion pesos per month for the policy it contracted to insure loans to retirees, according to its former owner Giordano.
Privilege retirements
The lifetime allowances granted by the regime of Law 24,018 corresponding to former presidents and former vice presidents and heirs. According to a note published last month in THE NATIONa Mauricio Macri, who held the presidency between December 2015 and that month of 2019, this month an assignment of a net amount of $4.958.645,09, while the figure before discounts is $6,973,574.76. For who was his vice president, Gabriela Michetti, The gross income is $5,065,859.20 and the amount in hand is $3.889.383,02.
During his speech before the Legislative Assembly, the president Javier Miley said that, as part of a package of laws “anti-caste”, He was going to promote the elimination of privileged retirements, a point that was included in the omnibus law. Although the comprehensive pension reform is one of the points to be discussed in the call on May 25, and when introducing that discussion there is talk of giving sustainability to the system and respecting those who contributed to the pension system, the conversations did not prosper for now. around the elimination of privileged retirements, an issue that does not seem to have the support of the different political sectors. If a project that eliminates them is eventually approved, it would not have retroactive effects.