SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The national deputy of Podemos Canarias and former counselor of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands, Noemí Santana, has criticized the “petty and reprehensible policy” of the new counselor responsible for the area, Candelaria Delgado, and has wanted to dismantle some of the “lies or measures truths” that he has been expressing in statements to the media.
In an opinion article, Noemí Santana began by denying that there was a “hole” in the Canarian Citizenship Income (RCC) as stated by the new counselor and assured that it was “perfectly planned” in the evolution of the payroll and there were own resources. “more than enough” to cope with it. She has specified that between what was budgeted (82 million euros) and the remainder of poverty funds for 2022 and 2023, they add up to the 100 million that the previous Government allocated for this purpose.
Likewise, he has assured that they would have had even more resources if the Canarian Coalition and the then national deputy Ana Oramas had not voted against expanding by 10 million more the poverty funds that the State has allocated to the Canary Islands in 2023, of which co-finances the Citizenship Income.
Santana has stressed that this amount is the largest investment that a Canarian autonomous government has allocated directly to vulnerable families in the history of the autonomous community and a “completely unprecedented” budgetary effort in the current counselor’s party.
Likewise, he has warned that the budget execution of the Citizenship Income will be less than what the previous team of the Ministry had anticipated, since the current one has a “monumental traffic jam”, being “incapable of finding solutions for the thousands of pending applications “. “That is his real problem and where his nerves come from,” said Noemí Santana, alluding to the statements of his successor.
Noemí Santana has clarified that the supposed hole of 8 to 9 million per month to which the counselor has referred is the annual cost of the payroll, which is why she is surprised that the former president of the College of Social Workers makes a “failure like this “, unless its objective was “directly to confuse.”
SHOCK PLAN.
In relation to Delgado’s announcement that he is going to carry out a shock plan because “the previous team did not do it”, Noemí Santana has assured that the new head of Social Welfare “is aware that it was carried out, reinforcing the staff more than ever”. What’s more, she wanted to remember that the counselor herself “commented on it at the parliamentary headquarters” and by going to the newspaper archive “she will be able to contrast the efforts to reinforce the staff that promoted the Flower Pact.”
Santana stressed that not only were hundreds of people incorporated to be able to manage the Dependency system, but also in all general directorates. Specifically, he pointed out that only in the Directorate of Social Rights was the workforce reinforced with 80 people in two shock plans and an expansion of 20 more was approved for this year. “There have never been so many people working,” highlighted the former counselor, adding that this was what made it possible to speed up the management of the Canarian Integration Benefit (PCI), ending the waiting list.
In his opinion, the problem comes because the current team does not cover the losses of personnel who have gone to other destinations and has not covered the expansion of 20 more people, which “is leaving it in a wasteland.” “Making another plan is fine, but it’s better to start by complying with the one we left you processed,” he said.
MINIMUM VITAL INCOME.
Noemí Santana has also referred to the counselor’s statements that it is up to the State to pay the general part of the Minimum Living Income and to the autonomous community only the supplements to the Income. In her opinion, Candelaria Delgado demonstrates a “total ignorance” of the Canarian Citizenship Income Law, since this benefit “covers families who, in many cases, do not meet the requirements to receive the Minimum Living Income.” In addition, she clarified that of the 14,000 families that are in the Citizenship Income – “which in reality do not exceed 12,500” -, all have requested the Minimum Income.
For Santana, “this statement by the counselor is not trivial, since she has stated that they will not be able to pay the supplement to the 43,000 people who receive non-contributory pensions in the Canary Islands (…) because the State is not responsible for the general part In other words, the story that the Canarian Coalition prepares to explain that the Canarians who collect non-contributory pensions (…) are not going to receive their supplement is that Madrid is to blame.”
At the same time, he said that it is “totally false” that there is no management application and pointed out that this was tendered with Next Generation funds and was being applied and developed for the entry into force of the Canary Islands Citizenship Income. “This is also public and easily verifiable information,” said Noemí Santana.
Regarding the inheritance received by the current team to which the counselor has referred, Santana explained that it is “that of an autonomous community that, for the first time, approves in the DEC 2022 Index of the Association of Directors and Managers of Services Social Services, “a milestone in the history of our social services that involves improving for the first time an area that was never a political priority with other governments and that was possible with the Flores Pact and Podemos managing the Department of Social Rights,” he added. .
At the same time, he emphasized that 2022 was “the year of best management of the PCI since it was created in 2007, which allowed us to protect more families than ever in the Canary Islands.” And in relation to the Department “it is to get CC and the PP to the Government and begin to reduce in a very noticeable way the files that are processed each month,” lamented Santana, who feels that the new team “needs to throw dirt on the management of the previous one.” to cover up their own inabilities” because “the rights of thousands of Canary Islanders depend on it.”
