Ciudad Juarez.- More than 13 thousand senior citizens joined the Pension for Welfare program in the state during the operation of new admissions in August carried out by the federal agency, of which almost half were located in this border.
With these new beneficiaries, this program reached 90 thousand registrations on this border alone.
According to figures released by the Chihuahua Welfare Delegation, 13,776 senior citizens joined the federal initiative after admissions were suspended due to the electoral process since last March; of that number, 6,081 are new beneficiaries from Juarez.
In the incorporation operation carried out before the elections, in Juárez more than seven thousand senior citizens who turned 65 between November 1 and June 30 were able to join the pension program during the extensions in December and January.
This portion of the beneficiaries will have to wait another month to be called to receive their Banco del Bienestar cards.
The change in the federal government will affect the dates for depositing the pension subsidy for senior citizens for people who have just joined the program in the operation that ends today.
“We are waiting for definitions in this regard, they will surely have resources starting in the last two months, but it will probably be activated in January with a retroactive effect (…) due to the change of the Government of Mexico, it is likely that events will not occur with the regularity with which they have been occurring during the validity of this administration, but the pension for each beneficiary is secure,” said Rafael Mata, deputy delegate of Social and Human Development of the Secretariat of Welfare in Chihuahua.
According to the federal official’s explanation, the beneficiaries who joined the senior citizen pension program in this recent operation will receive their Bienestar card without funds in October at the Banco del Bienestar branch where they carried out the procedure.
The resource would be reflected until the dispersion of January next year.
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