The ANSES social security agency has announced retirees and pensioners will have to register their fingerprints digitally in order to collect their payrolls.
The decision was published today in the official gazette, explaining that banks will be in charge of taking the biometric data of beneficiaries as well as of their representatives who have been authorized to collect their money.
The 648 resolution also establishes that starting on June 2015 all ATMs will have to have a digital person fingerprint reader.
According to the resolution, the new system “seeks to optimize the processes regarding payment and life certificates for pensions’ owners and for non-contributive pensions or their authorized representatives through a technological, agile, secure, effective, reliable and simple system that uses biometric tools that allow capturing fingerprints in a digital way.”
“Paying entities will have to incorporate biometric identification tools in each of their offices and payment centers, in which the corresponding payment of pensions of the Argentine Social Security Integrated System (SIPA) and non-contributive pensions take place,” the text also reads.
“Payment entities will have to enroll title holders of SIPA pensions and of non-contributive pensions and their authorized representatives through the capture of their fingerprints, and create a data base that will be centralized and administrated by this National Administration (the ANSES),” the resolution explains.
The new system could be expected to reach the payment of beneficiaries of the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) state-cash transfer as well as of other social plans.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald