The Government modified the control system for the AUH: what changes for beneficiaries

The Government modified the system used to monitor compliance with the requirements to receive the Universal Child Allowance (Asignación Universal por Hijo, AUH) and expanded the automatic verification mechanism for health, vaccination, and school attendance conditions.

The measure was made official through Resolution 508/2026 of the Secretariat of Labor, Employment and Social Security, published in the Official Gazette this Wednesday.

Until now, Law 24,714 established that 80% of the allowance was paid monthly and that the remaining 20% was withheld until the recipient certified compliance with certain conditions.

For children up to four years of age, health checkups and the mandatory vaccination schedule had to be verified, while for school-age children and adolescents, attendance at the corresponding school year also had to be certified.

In the recitals of the new regulation, the Government recalled that Resolution 1170/2025 had implemented an automatic verification mechanism exclusively for health checkups and vaccination of children up to four years of age.

It has now been decided to extend that system to cover "both health and education conditions, for all beneficiaries of said benefit."

The main modification establishes that "compliance with both conditionalities will be certified automatically through the secure exchange of information between the Ministry of Health, the Secretariat of Education of the Ministry of Human Capital, and the National Social Security Administration (ANSES)."

The resolution does, however, maintain an alternative channel for cases in which the information is not available in official databases.

In those cases, "the holder may submit the corresponding documentation to the National Social Security Administration (ANSES) through the procedures that said body determines for that purpose."

Under the new scheme, when compliance with the health checkups and vaccination of children up to four years of age is automatically verified, "the reserved amount will be settled automatically and on a monthly basis together with the eighty percent (80%) of the benefit amount."

The Government explained that the measure is "timely" because it allows automatic validation mechanisms to be extended to all beneficiaries covered by the allowance and reduces the need to carry out in-person procedures or submit documentation when the information is already available in state records.

It also notes that the changes introduced fall within the principles of "administrative efficiency" and "simplification of procedures" set out in various regulations related to "the comprehensive protection of girls, boys and adolescents, education, and early childhood care."

The Government also stated that the measure "contributes to strengthening the social protection system" and allows for "reinforcing the link between health and education policy and income policy."

The resolution instructs ANSES to adopt "the measures and regulations that may be necessary" to implement the new automatic information exchange and monitoring scheme.