Every year, the world is battered by natural phenomena, and their effects disrupt daily human life. Thunderstorms, floods, volcanic eruptions and forest fires are becoming ever more common across all regions of Argentina.

In response to this, a number of presidential decrees have provided for temporary supplements in the amount of 100 per cent of family allowance, unemployment benefit and pension payments to thousands of people seriously affected by natural phenomena to reduce the economic impact of such events.

The Historical Reparation for Retirees and Pensioners Act (Ley de Reparación Histórica para Jubilados y Pensionados) of June 2016 provides for the current pension benefits of retirees and pensioners to be fully recalculated and where the discrepancies are in the beneficiaries’ favour, settlement offers are offered and which are then subject to judiciary approval to avoid future litigation.

The National Historical Reparation Programme  (Programa Nacional de Reparación Histórica) was established with the aim of implementing settlement agreements between the National Social Security Administration (Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social ‒ ANSES) and retirees/pensioners to adjust their pensions and to settle pension debts owed to beneficiaries who voluntarily participated and met the criteria laid out in Act No. 27.260.

Technical aid or support products are among the most important factors in terms of human development for disabled and elderly persons. The objective is to mitigate or compensate for limitations when performing various activities of daily living such as eating, dressing, personal hygiene, mobility for the bedridden, play and leisure time, productivity and work activities as well as improving independence and quality of life.

This is about a platform for data exploration and analysis which aims to allow large quantities of data to be visualized, filtered and categorized so as to inform organizational decisions affecting society at large.

This good practice comprises a workflow platform which automates a series of actions, activities and tasks performed by users when executing certain established processes. This allows work on the implementation and improvement of routine processes to be coordinated and organized. The platform integrates workflows, the requisite documentation, and internal and external services throughout the organization and allows processes to feed into one another which otherwise would be carried out in isolation. 

An application was launched to facilitate access to the information and services of the National Social Security Administration (Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social – ANSES) through mobile phones, which are widespread among the population.

Single tax is an option designed for self-employed workers to pay contributions and taxes in a simplified way. Social security (retirement and health) and tax (VAT and income tax) contributions are collected together as a fixed monthly fee. To join the scheme, one has to comply with billing parameters including business surface area, electricity consumed and rental.

There are 3,373,712 single-tax contributors registered in Argentina.

The scholarship service is intended to comprehensively intervene in the education of our members by providing them with an amount of money every month.

The scholarships cover secondary, tertiary and university levels, and are awarded through contests.

The objective of the program is to work to ensure that indigenous people and vulnerable rural communities of our country fully enjoy and exercise their social security rights from an integrated perspective, through institutional action that ensures access to the National Social Security Administration (Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social – ANSES) benefits without discrimination and respecting their culture and socio-economic characteristics.