Overview
- Chief of Cabinet Manuel Adorni announced the shutdown and said the ministry led by Mario Lugones will take over disability policy administration.
- The reorganization removes 16 political posts—a 45.7% cut in the hierarchy—and promises permanent audits, file traceability and sanitary criteria.
- Payments of non-contributory disability pensions will continue through ANSES, though beneficiaries who fail existing requirements could be dropped after reviews.
- Interventor Alejandro Vilches is slated to head the new area as a Health Ministry secretariat as the transition consolidates oversight.
- Opposition lawmakers denounced the move as an attempt to erase evidence and filed congressional challenges, while Judge Sebastián Casanello’s probe into alleged kickbacks proceeds.