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| The Social Support Plan allocates another three million to grant subsidies and finance social entities that serve the most disadvantaged groups in the municipality | Vulnerable families in the municipality of Murcia will receive aid worth 9 million euros.
This is reflected in the Social Support Plan prepared to deal with the socio-sanitary crisis generated by the expansion of the coronavirus.The Department of Social Rights, which is headed by the mayor Pilar Torres, will manage a game of 18 million to apply social measures.
Half of that amount will go towards the acquisition of basic products that will serve to serve the neediest families.Amounts will also be released to apply for rental aids and to pay electricity, water and gas bills.
The technicians of the Department will process ex officio and urgently these aid so that they reach their beneficiaries as soon as possible.The mayor Pilar Torres has indicated that "our priority is to serve all citizens who need help and that is why we are going to redouble our efforts to execute measures that serve to give a break to those who are having the worst time."Extraordinary financing and grants worth 3 millionThe City Council has always had a very close relationship with third sector entities, which are responsible for providing care to the most vulnerable.
In this sense, it will allocate a budget of 3 million to finance and subsidize the work carried out by social entities.The Social Support Plan allocates 1.5 million to the financing of the collaborating associations with the municipal social services that contribute to the maintenance of the assistance and accommodation resources that are provided to the most vulnerable population of the municipality.Likewise, the Department of Social Rights will invest another 1.5 million in giving financial support to social entities by approving direct subsidies that serve to guarantee the distribution of food and basic necessities to people who are served by the consistory social services.The Department also has 1 million reserved to enable facilities that serve as accommodation for people who do not have a home.
In this matter, the Government Team acts in coordination with other administrations and third sector entities.The Government Team has been working in this line since the beginning of the coronavirus socio-sanitary crisis.
Previously, it has already approved an extraordinary subsidy of 750,000 euros that was received by Cáritas Diocesana, the Red Cross and the Food Bank, the three distribution entities that are responsible for ensuring that basic food needs are delivered to more than 2,000 people, distributed throughout the municipality.
These entities serve more than 600 minors with this work.More than 1,600 families have already received aidSimilarly, since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, more than 1,600 families have received aid.
The investment for this concept exceeds 1.3 million.
The technicians of the Department of Social Rights process more than 100 aid files daily to assist those most in need.Coordinated work of a staff of more than 200 workersSince the beginning of the state of alarm, the more than 200 workers that the Department of Social Rights has have been carrying out a coordinated effort that has enabled the telephone service of 20,000 requests, reaching more than a thousand daily.
Officials provide personalized attention to each case and evaluate the aid that is best for each beneficiary.Likewise, 618 files of Basic Insertion Income are processed.
Discharges in home care have grown 95% in the last two months.
Likewise, in the last month 37 discharges have been processed in the telecare service and 36 in the home delivery service.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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