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| Both formations warn that the City Council, two months later, has not put a euro and, also now pays half of the money owed to families | The municipal groups of PSOE and Podemos have come out today to denounce again the "lousy management" of the PP with the dining room scholarships which benefit 3,000 schoolchildren from the municipality, 2,100, awarded scholarships by the Autonomous Community and 900 by the City Council of Murcia.

For this reason, they ask the councilor for Social and Family Rights, Pilar Torres, to resign. Despite announcing that today the meals were beginning to be paid, the truth, as explained by the socialist councilor Antonio Benito, is that the money to recharge the cards is what the Autonomous Community has transferred, "the Murcia City Council has not put not a euro "to guarantee the food of these minors who have a right acquired since last September.

Therefore, the Department of Social Rights has only dealt with distributing the money among all the families, which will receive 71.68 euros, despite the fact that they are owed more than € 150, as explained by PSOE councilor Esther Nevado, " especially when last Friday, the Governing Board announced that the City Council would allocate € 720,000 to cover the dining room scholarships until the end of the course,that is why we do not understand that the total amount owed to them is not paid, "he clarifies. Clara Martínez Baeza, from the Podemos Group, has commented on the case of Susana, a mother without economic income since March and with two children who yesterday questioned the helplessness on the part of the Department of Social Rights, which "risks the right to food of many minors from Murcia ".

In reference to Torres, she stated that "she has shown that it works by push, either by press conference or letter.

Two months without solving the problem and every time we have asked for information, we have been answered with lies." She added that "it lacks the empathy that is expected of a person in charge of a Department that today is more essential than ever." For the PSOE and Podemos groups, the "incapacity and inefficiency" of the person in charge of Social Rights disqualifies her from taking over this department, which must take care of protecting the most vulnerable.

In this regard, Nevado recalled that it is not only about the dining room scholarships but also the Basic Insertion Income, aid to the Unit and social emergency aid are blocked.

"This is the department of misgovernment, for lack of workers, for lack of means and for the abandonment suffered by the different PP governments." Benito has insisted that what has been distributed is the money transferred by the Autonomous Community, so the City Council is carrying out trillers with the money from the dining room scholarships.

Councilwoman Torres, out of personal modesty should leave.

" Clara Martínez Baeza also recalled that in the last plenary session a motion was approved to expand the dining room scholarships in order to cover the food of all these minors not only on school days, but also on weekends and holidays.

Source: PSOE Murcia