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The Councilor for Social Rights details the most important measures that the City Council launched to address this situation

"The Socialist Party asked us yesterday for more investment in parties and today uses that game to demagoguery"

"Social Rights has allocated close to 18 million euros in addressing poverty and social exclusion."

In this way, Conchita Ruiz wanted to respond to the criticism of the socialist Susana Hernández about the situation of social emergency that some families from Murcia are going through.

"18 million euros, including about 3 million in social emergency aid, plus subsidies to NGOs working for social inclusion and actions to prevent and promote equal opportunities with the most vulnerable groups such as they are children, adults and women, and dependent people ", added Conchita Ruiz.

To this is added the gratuity in such essential services as Home help, Telecare and Respiro Familiar, as well as the Social Water Fund.

With regard to the ordinance of social emergency aid of the City of Murcia "includes three concepts related to energy and water poverty, such as aid for the consumption of electricity, aid for connection to the network of electricity consumption in the cases in which the supply cut has occurred, and the aid for the connection to the potable water supply network in the cases in which the supply cut occurred ".

On the other hand, on the part of the social services it is informed of the requests to take refuge in the social fund of Aguas de Murcia, by which the families that certify that they can not assume the cost of the receipts, can avail themselves of a flat rate for the that 5 euros per month are paid, which simultaneously entails the elimination of the municipal taxes linked to said receipt (garbage and sewage).

To this extent, more than 12,000 families of the municipality have been welcomed since its implementation.

If, instead of remaining in the head of a media outlet, they referred to the contents of the Plan itself, they could have verified that this data is one of those that are handled as one of the possible estimates made in the preliminary study.

According to another criterion included in the same study, the figure would be 12,000 families and it would be around the 3,452 families that could be identified as severe vulnerable consumers (2.2% of households) and another 3,600 that would be considered as customers. vulnerable. "

"All the above, together with other measures that are going to be launched progressively, are part of the Municipal Plan against energy and water poverty that was approved last year by the City Council", detailed the Councilor for Social Rights.

Conchita Ruiz, has regretted the attitude of the Socialist Party and its spokesperson Susana Hernandez, who "makes demagoguery with an issue as important as this and for which we allocate so much effort and budget." It is not acceptable to mix these works with the investment that the Murcia City Council makes parties for their neighborhoods and districts, yesterday they asked us for more economic effort and today criticize that spending.Not all goes and in social issues even less, it is false that 4 million euros are destined for the celebration of festivities and I'd like to know where these figures come from. "

Finally he wanted to emphasize that "it is incredible that they have taken almost 8 months to realize a Plan that was approved by the Governing Board of May 12 and that is public since then, known by all organizations in the third sector and presented and approved by the network for social inclusion, it has been necessary a press release to realize that the Plan is a working document that is prepared precisely to address a situation that concerns a significant number of families in our municipality and that they require answers, not only their use to criticize other aspects of municipal management ".

Source: PP Murcia