The councilor for Social Protection and Reduction of Inequality of Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), Nuria Sánchez, has reported the approval, in the last session of the Local Government Board, of a new call for the Social Emergency Aid of the Talavera City Council, endowed with 500,000 euros. The main objective of this action is to streamline resources for families with fewer resources in the city.
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This was announced this Tuesday, while explaining that the economic item of half a million euros is maintained and that “it will be expanded if necessary”, as happened last year, with another 60,000 euros that were added. The purpose was and is to meet all the needs since “all families, boys and girls, men and women who need it most will be answered”, because “they are not going to be left out nor are we going to leave anyone behind ”, He added.
This call includes news for single-parent and single-parent families, which will be given greater agility in the resolution of applications to be able to access these grants. These families, he specified, are “generally women with dependent children with low income, less family support or an excessive burden that reduces their autonomy.”
In this sense, he stressed that the Government team wants to bring this help immediately and thus ensure that it reaches these families who are also having a hard time in the city, the City Council reported in a statement.
The mayor recalled that in 2020 the item was increased to 560,000 euros and, thus, respond to urgent requests. In this way, it was possible to reach 700 households in Talavera with this resource; some 2,800 people, which allowed “to reach 100 percent of the families that met the requirements.”
The Social Emergency Aid is an instrument of economic support and of social, labor and educational integration for many individuals and families, which includes coverage to face late payments and debts of rent or mortgage, or other basic resources of everyday life, like shopping.
Specifically, it contemplates payments on the habitual residence or accommodation, such as the payment of rent, a new rental home contract or mortgage debt; the maintenance of the home, to cover expenses or debts incurred in supplies of water, electricity and gas, or registration of contracts for such supplies; acquisition of basic household equipment, such as kitchen, electrical appliances or house maintenance; as well as for the acquisition of food, medicine or basic necessities, such as personal or household clothing.
FOOD TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES
It has also underlined that it has proceeded to the hiring of vehicles for the transport of food from the Food Bank of Toledo and the Spanish Red Cross, which are distributed among the associated entities of Talavera belonging to the Spanish Fund for Agrarian Guarantee and whose quantity, on this occasion, it has amounted to 41,413 kilos of food. This action takes place on a quarterly basis.
Finally, Sánchez has stated that the deadline for submitting applications is December 15, a procedure that can be carried out in the city’s Social Services centers, by appointment; Through the municipal registry of the City Council, also by appointment; or electronically through the electronic office. Applications may be formalized from the day following the publication of the call in the Official Gazette of the Province (BOP).
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