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Argentina Rolls Out SISOC to Centralize and Oversee Social Benefits

AI checks on live records aim to remove ineligible cases.

Overview

  • SISOC, which the Ministry of Capital Humano put into operation Friday, unifies data on people, families and community centers in one system.
  • The database already holds about 7.2 million individual profiles and more than 3,600 centers, creating a single digital file that tracks personal details, family links, program use and state interventions.
  • The platform flags irregularities using algorithms and cross‑checks with national and provincial sources such as ARCA, ANSES, Progresar and SINTI, which officials say led to removals of people who owned multiple homes or cars while receiving benefits.
  • Community centers now have profiles with budgets, activities, infrastructure and attendance, with surprise audits every two months, and a mobile app due next month is set to let centers record activities, manage attendance and file digital expense reports.
  • The system was built in‑house with UN Development Programme support and tools like Copilot and AWS, it is not public due to personal data, and the roadmap calls for wider data sharing, automatic referrals to services such as SEDRONAR and fuller predictive simulations by 2027.