SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Social Rights, Equality, Diversity and Youth of the Government of the Canary Islands, Noemí Santana, has announced that former recipients of the Canary Islands Insertion Benefit (PCI) will be able to request this benefit again.
This has been advanced in the plenary session of the Canary Islands Parliament in response to a question from the Popular Party, where it unveiled a series of measures aimed at improving the Canary Islands Insertion Benefit.
The counselor stressed that there are already 9,250 families protected by this benefit, recalling that when the Government arrived the figure was 5,687. “This is not the result of chance. It is the product of the reforms that have been made so that the PCI covers more people than it does,” he said.
Noemí Santana influenced the modifications applied to the benefit, advancing that the families who received the PCI at the time will be able to request it again, something that had not happened until now. “In this way we will protect more than 10,000 families at the beginning of next year,” he added.
He also recalled that the Government has already approved granting a new extraordinary supplement to the beneficiaries of this social aid of 250 euros, as was done in December of last year.
To these measures are added, among others, the continuity of the personnel that processes in the municipalities through the advance processing of the agreed Social Benefits Plan; the extension of the execution periods to enable the maintenance of professional teams and the incorporation of a total of 65 professionals to the General Directorate of Social Rights, of which a total of 40 will carry out their work in the area of PCI, that will allow streamlining the management of the PCI during 2022.
The modification of the Benefit Law with the aim of making those families that already benefited in the past and who have dependent minors or the adaptation of the PCI to the Minimum Vital Income (IMV), as well as in complement Other measures promoted by Social Rights have been other measures promoted by Social Rights in order to determine the amount of the PCI.
