10/15/2020 7:55 AM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 10/15/2020 7:55 AM
With the crisis fueled by the coronavirus pandemic, one of the official aid measures with the greatest impact is the Emergency Family Income (IFE), which involves the payment of $ 10,000 to some 9 million people.
And although the fourth phase of the plan has not been confirmed so far, the government assures that they will maintain support for the sectors with fewer resources.
The IFE began to be paid in April, amid the strict quarantine.
It reaches 9 million people and has already had three editions
, each with a profit of $ 10,000.
The last batch finished being paid at the end of September and since then the Government has been promising that the definition of whether there will be an IFE 4 is imminent.
Now, the one who spoke of the next step was the Minister of Social Development, Daniel Arroyo, who, although he assured that "a new payment is not yet defined", ratified that "
the President's commitment to accompany those who have less is clear
" .
“That marks the President's decision to start with the last and the level of serious deterioration.
The IFE marked the level of labor informality, if there are 16 million families and the IFE charges 9 million ... there is a high level of informality, "said the official in statements to the TN channel.
Until now, the bonus has reached holders of the Universal Child Allowance (AUH), the unemployed and informal workers, domestic workers, monotax A and B and beneficiaries of the Progresar plan.
The three rounds of the IFE
demanded an expense of $ 270,000 million from the State.
Attentive to public accounts, the Government continues to debate whether to keep it, cut it or redesign it.
The IFE reaches 9 million people.
The deterioration of social indicators plays in favor of the IFE continuing.
With unemployment and poverty on the rise and the pandemic strengthening in the Interior, the governors press for the IFE to remain as it is.
Faced with this, plan B is to limit it to the most vulnerable segments, which according to the government's accounts would be three million people who could not reactivate their income even with the easing of the quarantine.
And the third option is to cancel the bonus and replace it with a job placement program for young people -2.5 million of IFE beneficiaries are between 18 and 24 years old.
On the table for discussion there is a key piece of information: 62% of IFE holders -5.4 million people- are unemployed or have an informal job, so they are among the most affected by the restrictions still in force in the quarantine.
Within the IFE there are also
690,000 monotributistas of categories A and B,
190,000 employees of private homes and 128,000 beneficiaries of the Progresar scholarships, the program that accompanies young people to finish their studies.
Arroyo also warned about the increase in poverty and warned that there are "three excluded generations."
"We have to solve basic questions, all children have to go to kindergarten", but "inequality, child poverty will not be reduced; there will be a fourth generation of excluded if the children do not go to kindergarten," he said. .
Since the outbreak of the pandemic until October 5
, the measures implemented by the Government to face the health crisis implied an expense of $ 941,328 million
, equivalent to 3.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and a decrease in resources of $ 96,210 million (0.4% of GDP).
While the amount of financial facilities amounts to $ 530,146 million (2% of the product), according to the calculations of the Budget Office of the National Congress (OPC).
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