The Government does not rule out a new IFE "if there is a regrowth and the social situation becomes complicated"

01/19/2021 9:22 AM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 01/19/2021 9:53 AM

The Minister of Social Development, Daniel Arroyo, reaffirmed this Tuesday the possibility of taking "exceptional social measures" if this year the fall in income in vulnerable sectors is repeated and cases of coronavirus increase in Argentina.

"If there is a reappearance and the social situation is complicated, we will take exceptional measures

,

"

said the official this Tuesday in dialogue with

El Uncover radio

.

And he recognized a "context of uncertainty."

At the end of November, the Executive froze the chance that there will be a fourth Emergency Family Income (IFE 4) during the course of 2020 and in the 2021 budget no aid was contemplated either.

In addition, there is also in the folder the negotiation with the Monetary Fund and the demands of the organism so that the country adopts austerity measures and structural reforms that clean up the fiscal situation.

However, Arroyo insisted that if there is an outbreak of coronavirus cases and

"the social situation becomes emergency again, we will face the necessary policies

.

"

In that sense, he confirmed that President Alberto Fernández's commitment to "take exceptional measures if necessary."

Barrios standing up during a protest in front of Social Development in 2020. Photo Lucia Merle.

Meanwhile, this Tuesday from 11.30, Barrios de Pie (Libres del Sur) will concentrate in the vicinity of the Ministry of Social Development of the Nation with the slogan

"The exit is without adjustment and without clientelism

."

"After deciding not to pay a fourth installment of the IFE,

the Government made announcements of an alternative program, but its execution was insufficient

. We already raised it in December, but now it turns out that the few additions to the Empower Work that are not going to be made they had been postponed to January, "complained Silvia Saravia, the organization's general coordinator.

During the interview, Minister Arroyo remarked that his portfolio is pending on construction, food production, textile activity, the care and recycling economy, which is where "the informal sector works" and that "defines how much the situation improves in the neighborhoods".

At the same time, he admitted that the

most serious problems in

popular neighborhoods today are "the price of food and the indebtedness of families."

For this reason, he explained that one of the objectives for this 2021 is "to

generate new amounts for the Food Cards

, an extra support for the cards and incorporate people who were not there."

This benefit reaches 1.5 million families who receive the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) and who are in charge of children under 6 years of age.

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