The state government has no date set yet to transfer to the Canary Islands the 30 million euros included in the General State Budget for 2021 to finance the program to fight poverty and basic social services benefits. The lack of a calendar for the transfer of resources, which requires the signing of an agreement between the State and the autonomous community, plus the subsequent agreement that the Canarian Government must close with local corporations for their distribution, makes it difficult for the funds to be able to be distributed. start to be used during the first half of the year.
At the request of CC that the 30 million budgeted be transferred to the Canary Islands with the utmost urgency to be able to face the social situation and the economic crisis generated by the pandemic, and in response to the question of the deputy Ana Oramas about the date scheduled for the transfer, the state government recognizes – in a letter dated February 23 – that “the processing of the credit has not yet begun” necessary to provide the financial item corresponding to the current fiscal year.
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The item was not in the 2021 Budgets and was recovered with an amendment from Nueva Canarias.
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Plaza The lack of a calendar makes it difficult for poverty funds to be used in the first half of the year.
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By law, the State must provide funds against poverty on the islands.
The program to combat poverty specific to the Canary Islands was incorporated into the Budgets for the first time in 2018 with 30 million euros, and was executed that year and the following two -2019 and 2020- with the state accounts extended. However, the item disappeared from the 2021 budget bill that the Sánchez Government took to Congress in the fall of last year and was rescued by amendment after the agreement reached by the NC deputy, Pedro Quevedo, with the Minister of Finance, María Jesus Montero.
The transfer of funds requires the prior signing of an agreement between the Canary Islands Government and the State
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With its incorporation into state accounts, the REF law in force since November 2018 was complied with, which in its article 21 indicates that given the high rate of social exclusion of the archipelago and taking into account its status as an outermost region (RUP), the The Government of Spain must annually consign in the General State Budgets a sufficient endowment to promote measures against poverty as long as the official indicators remain above the national average.
The demand to speed up the transfer of the 30 million to fight against poverty has also reached the Senate, where CC through Senator Fernando Clavijo has asked the Government for the expected date to transfer the funds to the Canary Islands, and the representative of the Socialist Group Gomera (ASG), Fabián Chinea, has presented an initiative in which he asks the State Executive to transfer resources to the autonomous community urgently. The Gomeran parliamentarian recalls that it is “fundamental” that the Canary Islands public administrations have all the economic resources available as soon as possible to be able to guarantee a social shield to cushion the situation that many families live in the islands. “Applications for social assistance have multiplied and the negative perspectives of all economic indicators suggest that the social crisis is going to worsen,” he points out.
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