The Argentine Government officially announced this Monday the granting of a 70,000 peso pension bonus for December, aimed at retirees and pensioners who receive the minimum benefit, through Decree 848/2025, published in the Official Gazette.
In this way, the minimum pensions for December will be 410,879 pesos, as the initial benefit for the last month of the year was set at 340,879 pesos, following a 2.34% increase, determined in line with October's inflation.
Meanwhile, for those beneficiaries whose total active benefits exceed 340,879 pesos but fall below 410,879 pesos, the maximum amount of the Extraordinary Pension Bonus will be the sum needed to reach that figure. For example, if a retiree receives a pension of 380,000 pesos, they will only receive a bonus of 30,879 pesos.
With this confirmed pension aid and the aguinaldo (year-end bonus), the lowest pensions will increase from 403,150 to 581,319 pesos.
In the considerations of the regulation, analyzed by the Argentine News Agency, the Executive referred to the Pension Mobility Index applied since March 2021 by Law No. 27,609, highlighting the adverse effects of inflation on the pensions paid under the aforementioned formula.
In this regard, the official text pointed out that “the formula established there presented serious and serious inconveniences, as it did not safeguard the inflationary risk affecting the benefits of older adults, since it did not contemplate price variations and presented a significant gap between the evolution of economic variables and their transfer to benefits, among other issues.”
Given this diagnosis, various economic pension aids have been implemented in recent months.
Since President Javier Milei took office, two bonuses of 55,000 pesos were granted in the first two months of 2024, and from last March onwards, it was updated to 70,000 pesos.
In this regard, the Decree stated that “Law No. 27,609 implied harmful effects for all retirees and pensioners, but mainly regarding those with lower incomes, making it necessary to support them through the granting of economic pension aids and/or extraordinary monthly pension bonuses for different amounts, from January 2024 to November 2025, inclusive.”
Continuing in this line, it expressed that “as compensation for the adverse effects caused by the application of Law No. 27,609 on the pension benefits of lower-income older adults, for the month of December 2025, it is considered appropriate to grant an Extraordinary Pension Bonus.”
The official document specified that “to receive the present Extraordinary Pension Bonus, the benefits must be active in the same month in which it is settled” and specified that the bonus “will have a non-remunerative character and will not be subject to any deduction or computable for any other concept.”
Likewise, it provided that “in the case of pension benefits, regardless of the number of co-beneficiaries, they shall be considered as a single holder for the purposes of the right to receive the Extraordinary Pension Bonus granted by this decree.”
Who is entitled to the 70,000 peso bonus in December
The Decree detailed that the pension bonus will be granted to:
Holders of contributory pension benefits managed by ANSES. Beneficiaries of the Universal Pension for the Elderly. Beneficiaries of non-contributory pensions for old age, disability, mothers of 7 or more children, and other non-contributory and honorary pensions whose payment is managed by ANSES.
