The purple formation denounces that the aid to people without a bank account is not being paid and the rest of the Emergency Aid has been paralyzed since May.
Councilor Clara Mart nez Baeza believes that "we are facing a very serious situation because people's rights are being violated and many citizens who are on the ropes due to the context are being left behind.
current social and health " Podemos has asked on numerous occasions that the City Council reinforce the structure of social services in the municipality.
"Because in normal situations social workers are already overwhelmed in a municipality with unaffordable poverty rates." If we add to this structural precariousness the situation derived from the pandemic, we have "overwhelmed social services, which do not meet the recommended ratios of one social worker for every three thousand inhabitants and are not capable of assuming the needs of abandoned vulnerable groups to his luck for not receiving adequate care.
" The councilor of Podemos, Clara Mart nez Baeza, denounces that to the continuous delays, there is now a supervening situation that aggravates the attention by the social services "and is that an order has been given not to pay the help by Covid-19 to those people who do not have a bank account.
This situation is inadmissible because they are people who for various reasons cannot have bank details as they cannot assume the bank fees that involve having a checking account.
" Therefore, Mart nez Baeza asks the councilor for social services to "pay pending aid, reconsider the order not to pay aid to recipients without a bank account and to do their job and protect all Murcians and Murcians."The mayor adds that this government team can leave the weight of social protection in our municipality to third sector entities, if not that they must star in these public policies From the purple formation they insist on the urgency and the need to reinforce and provide both staff and budget to municipal social services.
"Because now it is the pandemic, but let's not forget that our municipality, our Region, has poverty rates that exceed the national average and in order to leave these data behind it is essential to support and protect citizens socially.
so that they can have the same opportunities and get out of the situation of poverty and social exclusion ".
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Source: Agencias