08/08/2020 - 8:47
- Clarín.com
- Society
The Government announced that it will pay a subsidy of $ 15,000 to the families of the deceased due to the coronavirus and who are within the "most vulnerable and needy sectors of society."
The measure is part of decree 665/2020, published this Saturday in the Official Gazette. According to the norm, the benefit seeks to "accompany and care for the most vulnerable and needy sectors of society" and will reach the families of those who "at the time of their death were unemployed ; or were working in the informal economy ; or were registered in categories "A" and "B" of the Simplified Regime for Small Taxpayers ", among other cases.
Also included in the norm are the relatives of "workers declared and declared in the Special Regime of Work Contract for the Personnel of Private Houses , or they were holders of the Universal Allowance for Child or Pregnancy or they were boys, girls, the adolescents and / or persons of legal age with disabilities who generated the same ".
The subsidy is part of a social containment program in force since 2006 and that - until now - reached beneficiaries of the SIPA (Argentine Integrated Pension System) and veterans of the Malvinas War, among other sectors. And it will be paid to the spouse or partner, the father or the mother or one of their mothers or one of their parents, or the son or daughter of the deceased.
The decree specifies that it will be effective as long as the applicant denounces the death and proves having paid the funeral expenses with the presentation of the invoice issued in his or her name by the funeral company that performed the service.
In the recitals, the decree adds that "the relatives of the deceased and those who died from COVID-19 go through their losses with the impossibility of accompanying themselves due to social, preventive and mandatory isolation."
On Friday night 160 new deaths were confirmed, bringing the number of deaths from coronavirus to 4,411 across the country . The pandemic, in addition, has already caused 235,677 infected.