The IMSS foresees 600 grants of 500 to 2,000 euros for basic needs

The budgetary modifications went ahead with the vote of the PP, Ciudadanos and Vélez.
S. GARCÍA

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The Municipal Institute of Social Services (IMSS) of Badajoz will have an item of 840,264 euros with which it calculates to grant some 600 social aid of 500 to 2,000 euros for families, intended to cover electricity, water and gas expenses, as well as rent or mortgage and others considered necessary. For its concession, the income limit and the casuistry of the applicants have been extended, as detailed yesterday by the Councilor for Social Services, Antonio Cavacasillas. The granting of these aids will be possible thanks to two budgetary modifications with the remnants of the IMSS that the plenary session of the city council approved, with the abstention of the PSOE and United We Can, whose municipal groups complained of lack of information and precipitation.

The two files will make it possible to meet needs that the health crisis has brought to light for a global amount of almost 1.6 million euros. In the first place, with 182,000 euros, the incorporation of 11 new social workers will be attended, whose jobs have to be adapted, as well as improvements in the Suerte de Saavedra social center and the acquisition of protective equipment. Another item of 125,700 euros is destined to actions in centers for the elderly. Third, extraordinary subsidies have been incorporated to social entities in three differentiated items. A first of 66,000 euros for the Food Bank, the Social Commissary, the two soup kitchens and Provida. For Cáritas and the Red Cross, 300,000 euros and 50,000 are allocated to the shelter that operates on Bravo Murillo street.

Together with these two budgetary modifications, two other files from the Department of Culture and Fairs and Festivities came forward, for 386,558 and 74,000 euros, for Christmas activities and the Alcazaba Festival, respectively. As defended by the Councilor for the Economy and Finance, Eladio Buzo, it is necessary to modify the 2020 budget, which is the one that is still in force, since this year a new one has not been approved and the previous one was that of “the uncertainty of the pandemic.

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