Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 04:57 UTC
The reinstatement covers only the pension derived from the death of former President Néstor Kirchner
Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will again receive, starting in August, a widow's pension of about 15.7 million pesos gross per month (around 12,000 dollars at the official exchange rate), following a court injunction that ordered the benefit provisionally reinstated after it was suspended in late 2024 in the wake of her corruption conviction.
The National Social Security Administration (ANSES) said it would comply with the order beginning with the August payment, while noting that it will continue to appeal the decision before the Supreme Court. The payment is provisional, includes no retroactive amounts or interest, and will remain in place until the courts rule on the substance of the case: whether the administrative decision to cancel the benefit was valid.
The reinstatement covers only the pension derived from the death of former President Néstor Kirchner. The other allowance the former leader received — the lifetime pension for having served as president, provided, like the first, under Law 24,018 — remains suspended. Both benefits had been cancelled in November 2024, after Fernández de Kirchner's conviction in the Vialidad case. In that proceeding, the Supreme Court upheld a six-year prison sentence — which she is serving under house arrest — and a lifetime ban from holding public office, for fraudulent administration to the detriment of the state.
