SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of the Canary Islands, meeting today in Council, has agreed to send to the Consultative Council of the Canary Islands the preliminary draft of the Income Law of Citizenship of the Canary Islands so that this body issues the mandatory report, as the next step in its processing.
This request responds to the administrative process prior to the debate and approval of the legal text in parliament, once the mandatory reports issued by the Economic and Social Council of the Canary Islands and the Municipal Council of the Canary Islands have been requested and already counting on the favorable report of the General Council of Social Services.
The purpose of the preliminary bill is to regulate the right to citizenship income as an economic benefit of periodic perception of the public system of social services of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.
Holders of this right will be all persons with effective residence in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands who are in a situation of social exclusion or social vulnerability and who meet the requirements set forth in this law.
Thus, it recognizes the right to economic benefits that ensure the coverage of basic needs to the coexistence unit that lacks sufficient economic resources to meet said needs and regulates the right to programs and services of social inclusion and / or labor insertion, in order to prevent and care for people in situations of social exclusion or vulnerability.
For the purposes of this law, the right to social inclusion is defined as the right of all people to receive support and personalized accompaniment, taking into account the gender perspective, aimed at full and effective inclusion in society, in all areas (economic, labor, health, educational, housing, social and cultural) that guarantees a standard of living and well-being that allows us to overcome the poverty line.
The preliminary draft of the Law is structured in a preliminary title and four titles, distributed in 60 articles; and, in addition, various additional, transitory, repealing and final provisions.
The preliminary title contains the general provisions of the standard, such as its object, the basic principles, the care model, the owners and beneficiaries, the unit of coexistence, housing or accommodation, as well as the definition of protected social exclusion situations. , together with the recognition of the right to social inclusion, which is configured as the right to receive support and personalized support aimed at full and effective inclusion in society.
For its part, Title I regulates the right to financial benefits and is divided into two chapters.
Chapter I is divided into seven sections. The first section establishes the concept, nature and characteristics of citizenship income. The second section determines the access requirements, the modalities and the incompatibilities. The third section develops the amount, the incentives for employment, the accrual and the payment. The fourth section regulates the citizenship income procedure. The fifth establishes the review, duration, modification, renewal, suspension and termination regime. The sixth section establishes the rights and obligations of the beneficiaries and, finally, the seventh section regulates the joint exercise of the rights to economic benefits and to social inclusion and / or labor insertion.
Chapter II is dedicated to supplements for housing, education and non-contributory pensions.
Title II is dedicated entirely to the second of the rights regulated by this law, that is, to the process of social inclusion. It begins with the determination of the subjects of the same, highlighting the free and voluntary character that people have for its exercise.
Title III is dedicated to the sanctioning regime, determining the infractions and their graduation, the sanctions they carry with them, and the procedure to be followed in this regime.
Finally, title IV includes the competence regime in chapter I, and the financing of citizenship income in chapter II. The first establishes the distribution of powers between the Administration of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the municipal administrations. The second establishes the financing of the rent and the agreements.
And in the final part of the law, the additional, transitory, repealing and final provisions are included, including the calendar of progressive implementation of the Law.
