Overview
- On Tuesday the prosecutor general Eduardo Casal issued a non-binding opinion urging the Supreme Court to take up appeals that seek to block a lower-court order restoring Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s suspended pension.
- The contested order was issued in February by the Federal Social Security Chamber’s Sala 3, whose judges Sebastián Russo and Juan Fantini granted a precautionary reinstatement of one benefit on grounds of alimentary need.
- ANSES has asked the courts to require a real guarantee before making the provisional payment and told judges the pension at issue would amount to roughly 15 million pesos per month.
- Casal argued the Chamber’s decision fails to consider the criminal conviction’s legal effects—particularly the absolute disqualification in article 19 of the Penal Code that can suspend the right to pensions—and that the ruling creates a jurisdictional conflict with the penal execution courts.
- The matter now rests with the Supreme Court, which will decide whether to admit the complaints; parallel cases over double collection of benefits and a disputed 'zona austral' premium linked to a Santa Cruz address remain open and could affect final liability.