As expected, the news of the Suspension of almost 160,000 Empower Work programs corresponding to beneficiaries who did not re-register as ordered by the Government did not go down entirely well. It is that from the worker pole, eduardo bellibonileader of the piquetero organization, described the cut as “a neoliberal adjustment”.
Yesterday, the Minister of Social Development, victory toulouse peace, announced in a press conference the suspension of 154 thousand programs. This is one of the biggest cuts in the management of the front of allsince it implies the loss of more than 10 percent of the total registered register.
“There are almost 160,000 families that will receive half their income next month because we cannot enter a data validation system that is exclusively via the Internet in a country where basic services are lacking in many parts of the territory,” Belliboni launched in an interview in Radio La Roja.
The leader questioned that from the portfolio he would not have taken into account the vicissitudes that present the different points of the countrywhere sometimes there is a lack of resources to access the Internet.
And he exemplified it: There are towns far away such as Pampa del Indio (Chaco), El Dorado (Misiones) or places in Jujuy where there is neither water nor light“.
Promote Work: Tolosa Paz announced the suspension of almost 160 thousand beneficiaries
In view of this, he added that Minister Tolosa Paz “decided that whoever signed up did so and whoever didn’t, was discharged.”. Either they could not enter or when they did the page was collapsed“.
Yesterday, the minister justified the decision to enable re-registration for beneficiaries to re-register. It is worth remembering that at the beginning of last December Tolosa Paz was denounced for breach of duties for not having canceled almost 300 thousand Programs allegedly charged irregularly.
“88% validated the identity and today we have a refined registry with certainties. Today we know that the program is transparent, clean of any irregularities. There is no incompatibility, there is no wealth, what there is is vulnerability and we have to be there,” said the official in C5N.
Belliboni’s insistence on releasing the program
The social leader came out this Tuesday with strong questions about the government’s management, which he accused of adjusting public spending. He said, specifically, that “this government wants to adjust as happened last year with the soup kitchens, and these 160 thousand casualties are a neoliberal or ultraliberal adjustment at the service of the Monetary Fund“.
Later, the piquetero leader recorded that the organization maintains that access to the program should be released. “We demand it from all the ministers, from this government and from the previous one. (The program) should be unrestricted, individual and universal so that all those who need it can sign up,” he insisted.
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“The State looks and checks if that person is in a position and grants them the benefit or not, that is a first filter”launched Belliboni.
two more instances
Despite the criticism, the Ministry of Social Development clarified that the cessation of the programs is not definitive but there are two more instances of verification.
“Now a period opens in which if the colleagues can do the paperwork to be discharged again, that’s why they are notified with a 50% discount“, detail is futurerock the Secretary of Social Economy Emilio Pérsico, leader of the Evita Movement.
The official and social leader clarified that if the beneficiary does not carry out this procedure, there is “the possibility of appearing in the productive units to do it personally, with which has two more instances to do it“.
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