The Government of Argentina made official this Wednesday, through a resolution published in the Official Gazette, the decision of Cristina Fernández, who receives two pensions, to stop collecting her salary as vice president of the South American country.
Through the resolution, which bears the signature of the Secretary General of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello, the General Directorate of Human Resources and the General Directorate of Administration are informed of the decision of the former Argentine president to renounce her salary as vice president and order them to do effective that determination adopted by Fernández.
According to the official text, Fernández communicated on March 5 to the General Secretariat of the Presidency, her decision to resign from receiving her remuneration as vice president from April 1, a position she has held since December 10, 2019.
Fernández had adopted that decision after the National Social Security Administration, the state body that administers the retirement system, notified that it would restore her life pension to the current vice president for having been in charge of the Argentine Executive between 2007 and 2015.
That benefit had been taken away during the government of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).
In 2017, the ex-president filed a lawsuit for the withdrawal of the pension and at the end of last year a judge ordered that the benefit should be restored to her.