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Government Moves to Narrowly Regulate Disability Law as Congress Demands Full Execution

After Congress reinstated the statute over a veto, officials signal they will apply only provisions they deem affordable.

Overview

  • The Executive has not published the law in the Boletín Oficial and, according to government sources, is leaning against a court fight while preparing a regulation limited to what the budget allows.
  • Article 19 orders regulation within 30 days of sanction, tasking the Jefatura de Gabinete with a compensatory budget for ANDIS and requiring a new nomenclador to update prestations.
  • The statute runs to December 2027 and includes monthly indexation and regularization of provider fees, reforms to noncontributory pensions, CUD and database updates, budget transparency, compensations for centers, and a 4% public‑sector employment quota.
  • Fiscal alarms center on extending pensions to all with a CUD—about 1.9 million people versus 1.2 million current recipients—while the OPC estimated provider compensation at 0.22%–0.42% of GDP and officials cited higher impacts for pensions and Incluir Salud, with the spokesperson warning of roughly $5 billion a year.
  • Pressure is building as a deputy warned of a “regulatory trap” that would push beneficiaries to litigate, lawmakers floated a possible censure of the chief of cabinet if funds are not reassigned, ANDIS’s prior audit under Diego Spagnuolo faces backlash over tens of thousands of suspensions, and the new interventor Alejandro Vilches began contacts on the pending regulation.