SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of the Canary Islands, meeting this Thursday in Council, has authorized the expenditure that entails the monetary contributions granted to the Canary Islands municipalities to finance, during the financial year 2022, the reinforcement of the basic social benefits to be provided for the services municipal social services, for an amount of 5,200,000 euros.
On August 2022, the Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda granted the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands a registered subsidy consigned in the General State Budget for the year 2022, amounting to 35 million euros, intended, among other programs , to the financing of the program for the fight against poverty and the basic benefits of social services in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.
For its part, the Ministry of Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth, through a departmental order of October 2022, agreed on the distribution of the funds destined for the execution of the registered grant from the State to the Canary Islands to finance the program of fight against poverty and the basic benefits of social services and authorized the distribution of the fund of 35,000,000 euros, the amount of 5,200,000 euros to finance the Basic Benefits of Social Services as well as assigning the management to the General Directorate of Social Rights and Immigration.
The distribution of this fund will be carried out in accordance with the General Protocol of Action between the Ministry of Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth and the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (FECAM), whose purpose is to serve as a framework to establish the distribution of this item between the municipalities, which will be carried out according to the number of inhabitants, the unemployment rate, dispersion, and double insularity, in the case of the peripheral islands.
The Executive specifies in a note that through these funds financial coverage is provided to municipal social services and resources directed to the care of families in a situation of greater social vulnerability such as, among others, the Canary Islands Insertion Benefit (PCI ), home help services, social service centers, day centers or care for people in situations of social risk, in addition to financing the resources and programs for the necessary care for families and people in situations of poverty and social exclusion residing on the islands.
