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The Councilor for Social Rights of the City of Murcia, Conchita Ruiz, chaired this morning the ordinary session of the Network for Social Inclusion of the City of Murcia in which various issues have been addressed.
First, the councilor has announced the new measures of the municipal Plan against energy and water poverty.
To this end, a Working Group on energy poverty and the development of the measures foreseen in the Plan will be set up, with the participation of agents of the third sector.
It is a work group planned between the actions of the Plan.
The Plan, in addition to measures to alleviate the existing debts or that can be contracted by those families with insufficient incomes, focuses its proposals on other measures aimed primarily at reducing consumption, education for consumption or improving the energy efficiency of the houses, already existing in the own rules of social emergency aid, two other concepts that can be articulated with this purpose:
These are the purchase of equipment for housing (replacement of household appliances for more efficient and less consumption) or minor repairs in homes (removal of humidity, improvement of windows, humidity, etc.), factors that have a decisive influence on greater consumption and in families with greater economic difficulties.
In recent months, Social Rights has allocated more than 100,000 euros for aid for the payment of energy, connections to the electricity grid or to water after the cut of supply, housing reforms (suppression of humidity, enclosures, etc.). and basic equipment.
For all this, "we consider that the system of aid for the attention of social emergencies is sufficiently adequate to meet the demand for the different aids that families may require to meet the expenses derived from energy consumption, especially those identified as vulnerable and vulnerable. severe, regardless of whether they can benefit from the measures proposed by the so-called social bonus, "explained Conchita Ruiz.
Finally, it is necessary to add that the income limit established to be able to apply for such aids is 125% of the Minimum Interprofessional Salary, increased according to a corrective index in the case of minors, dependents or persons with disabilities existing in the home, that the number of aid denied by economic criteria is practically irrelevant.
It should be noted that during the year 2017, close to 600,000 euros were allocated for the EMUASA Social Fund for flat rate, an aid that benefited 12,967 people.
Other matters have also been reported, such as the conclusions of the Water Social Rate Study, in which the CEPAIM Foundation and the University of Murcia have participated, which proposes the creation of offices or points of information, training, advice and individualized accompaniment to families and people who present situations of poverty and social exclusion or risk of suffering it, as well as the fact that the data of these offices and the means that the consumer has at their disposal for the resolution of the situations that may lead to the non-payment of receipts.
Conchita Ruiz also explained to the attendees the creation of a working group on social action and water, as well as the start-up of another working group of homeless people with mental health problems.
Finally, the proposal to carry out an awareness campaign about the exercise of begging in the municipality whose objective is to sensitize the population, in collaboration with the third sector, for the diffusion of the resources of the social services system has been reported. for the attention of people who exercise begging, guiding their donations for these resources.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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