After a lifetime working, it is normal for the person to retire and, at least, live comfortably. Without great luxuries, but being able to have enough money to make all daily meals and be able to give such daily whims as they have coffee. However, although it would be expected, it is a reality that some people have not been able to achieve.
This is the case of a 67 -year retiree from Almagro, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires (Argentina), which told the television channel ‘Eltrece’ the situation so precarious that was happening. Interviewed in the street, she explained that she had just come from making the purchase, complaining about the high prices: “Two kilos of chicken milanese 15,000 pesos (about 10 euros) and it is for me alone,” he said, while confessing that he should “ration it to reach me.”
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In fact, as the retirement pension is not enough to cover the basic expenses, he has had to resort to the church dining Dining, as a volunteer, today I am outside to help me with food. ”
“It gives me sadness … I had the illusion of retirement dignity”
The woman, who does not reveal her name during the interview, explains that she has thrown her whole life working. And, now, retired, does not reach him with his pension of 300,000 pesos (about 192 euros), even though he lives alone in a normal floor. “It is impossible to get the retirement to reach me at the end of the month,” he lamented to the aforementioned medium.
“It gives me sadness … I had an illusion of retirement dignity, to be able to go with my grandson to take an ice cream and not that,” he added frustrated. “I do not tell you a coffee for me, an ice cream with my grandson, nor that. It is terrible,” he continued, demonstrating the situation that is playing to cross many retirees. “I don’t know the forces of heaven, but I do know the strength of the people,” the interview concluded.
In this context, it should be noted that at the beginning of this August the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, vetoed by decree three laws that gave benefits to retirees, approved by Congress the month of previous. To do this, he claimed “serious technical deficiencies” and “an eagerness to prevent the government from falling into old inconducting practices.”
These repealed laws, specifically, were going to increase pensions, reinstated the moratorium on retirement (which allowed people who fulfilled the required age but did not have the 30 years of price required could access retirement) and endowed with new non -contributory pensions to people with disabilities.