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| The City Council extends the item to cover the needs of food, cleaning and personal hygiene of the most disadvantaged groups | The Murcia City Council, through the Department of Social and Family Rights, led by the mayor Pilar Torres, is going to increase the extraordinary financing worth 1 million euros to alleviate the effects caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the most families vulnerable of the municipality.The matter received this morning the approval of the Local Government Board at the request of the Social Services Area.
The City Council expands this item to cover the needs of food, cleaning and personal hygiene of the most disadvantaged groups.This action is part of the exceptional plan that the Government Team has applied since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in coordination with social entities and that has already provided support to 4,000 families in the municipality of Murcia.1.5 million earmarked since AprilThe formula to be used will be the direct granting of financial aid.
The funds approved today are added to another previous item, endowed with 500,000 euros, which the Government Team approved for the same purpose at the Government Meeting held on April 17.
The City Council plans to approve more aid of this type to face the effects generated by the socio-health crisis caused by the expansion of Covid-19.The grants in question are processed ex officio or at the request of the interested parties in all those cases in which compliance with the requirements stipulated by the Social Rights technicians is proven.The amount that each family unit will receive is a matter that will vary depending on the specific needs that must be covered in each case.
The payment to the beneficiaries of the aid will be made by bank transfer.Urgent and exceptional aidDue to the exceptional and urgent nature of this aid, it is not necessary to justify it.
In the same way, the beneficiaries are exonerated from the obligation to be up to date with the fulfillment of their tax obligations and with Social Security.The processing of this extraordinary line of aid involves the coordinated and effective work of the Social Services Area and the Accounting, Intervention and Treasury services.These aid are part of the extraordinary measures that the Murcian Council has been adopting to face the economic effects that the pandemic has caused on family units, and specifically on the most vulnerable groups.Care for the homeless and confined familiesFor this reason, the Department of Social Rights has increased its social coverage, with the mission of mitigating the effects of the socio-sanitary crisis.
These grants are added to other tasks carried out by the City Council, such as supporting families who must be quarantined due to medical prescription, care for the homeless, the granting of extraordinary subsidies worth 750,000 euros to third sector entities, such as the Food Bank of Segura, Cáritas Diocesana and the Red Cross and urgent contracts signed with companies for the provision of support tasks to the most vulnerable.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia / Foto: archivo
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