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| The families who have recognized this service received last night the recharge that ensures the provision of this aid | The Murcia City Council paid the dining room scholarships last night to the 3,000 minors who have this aid recognized in the municipality.
The councilor for Social Rights, Pilar Torres, has signed the decree that guarantees payments of 215,000 euros.The dining room scholarships are provided through rechargeable wallet cards that are used to purchase food by families with minor scholars.
The coordination carried out with the municipal Treasury, Accounting and Intervention services has allowed this aid to continue.Third advance made by the Murcian City CouncilPreviously, the City Council has already released another 267,000 euros to pay the dining room scholarships in the period between March 16 and April 8.
He did so through two decrees from the Department of Social Rights.
The payments made ensure that the dining room scholarship service is guaranteed in the municipality.The Murcian Consistory has advanced these payments, temporarily assuming the scholarships for the minors who depend on the Autonomous Community and which will subsequently be reimbursed by them.From the government team they support the Ministry in the petition that has been forwarded to the Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda to request more financial resources to guarantee the dining room scholarships until next September.The most vulnerable as a priorityThe councilor for Social Rights, Pilar Torres, explained that "our priority is always the most vulnerable and today we have once again demonstrated it by making an economic effort to serve all the minors in our municipality who have the dining scholarship recognized.
We will never leave anyone in need along the way and this is an example of our commitment.
"In parallel to this action, the City Council continues to pay the special aid that it approved to alleviate the effects that the socio-sanitary crisis caused by the coronavirus has generated.
The Department of Social Rights processes more than a hundred grants a day to assist those most in need and released a contingency fund endowed with a million euros to provide support to 6,000 families.It also approved a grant of 750,000 euros for Cáritas, the Red Cross and the Food Bank, which are the entities that are responsible for the distribution of basic food among the most vulnerable.
Similarly, it promoted the launch of the Galilea Commissary to guarantee the supply of 2,000 families.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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