Overview
- ANSES’ Program of Recognition of Contributions for Care Work grants one credited year per child born alive, two years for adopted children underage, an extra year for a child with disability, and two additional years per child when the mother received the AUH for at least 12 months.
- The benefit is aimed at women who are 60 or older, have no pension granted and have not opened a pension claim, and it only adds years to a contribution history rather than paying a new benefit.
- Receiving the credited years does not automatically produce a pension because applicants still must meet the ordinary retirement thresholds of age 60 and 30 years of contributions under the general regime.
- To apply applicants must check that their children are registered in Mi ANSES, request a turn and present identity documents, birth certificates, a CUD for disabilities, adoption judgments when relevant, and any records proving maternity leave or job absences.
- The measure gained renewed attention after the moratorium under Law 27.705 ended because it offers a practical route for mothers with interrupted work histories to close gaps in their records and potentially reach the contribution total needed to retire.