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The Socialist Councillor Maria Ponce announced that unemployment rose again in Lorca in March and already exceeded 7,500 people, "many of which receive no subsidies or help and they are finding it impossible to meet their basic needs"
Socialist Councillor Maria Ponce, has proposed to the Mayor of PP, Francisco Jodar, applying an allowance of Property Tax (IBI) by 95 percent and a cessation of seizures and rescheduling of debt to Lorca unemployed families.
Ponce championed these initiatives and measures to help alleviate the "dire need" where are those families in the municipality have all members on the dole "and receive no income or no income or benefits, said.
The socialist leader recalled that at the moment has passed the "chilling" of 7,500 unemployed Lorca and Lorca (7529), "many of whom do not receive any subsidy or assistance and who are finding it impossible to meet their basic needs "what he called" real social drama. "
Therefore, Ponce also argued that the City establish a procedure so that in case of non-payment of municipal taxes by a family with all members unemployed without benefits, or income, or income of any kind, no work is done seizure of vehicles, houses and other property.
In this sense, since the PSOE propose an adjournment to consider the possibility of delaying in time the debt until you change the precarious economic situation of the taxpayer or affected family.
Socialist Councillor explained that these measures "would be required and would apply in cases where taxpayers are in a position yet on executive way."
To obtain the above delay, the mayor said that the city of Lorca would enable an application procedure and the list of documents to submit.
Finally, the Mayor of Ponce PP proposed to establish a moratorium on water supply cut by default for all those unemployed in the municipality that can not meet its bills, provided they duly credited unemployment and disability to address the payment of bills.
New rise in unemployment in Lorca
For its part, the Socialist councilor Maria Ponce regretted that unemployment has become a 0.97% increase last March in Lorca, a figure above the national average (0.87%).
By contrast, neighboring municipalities have been down the number of unemployed for the second consecutive month.
Therefore, the mayor said Jódar PSOE is not entitled to hide behind the government of the nation, while the "Lorca hold negative growth figures of registered unemployment and the decline in recruitment and our neighbors if they are reflecting signs of recovery economy. "
Ponce said the March data show that Lorca is a Municipal unprepared for ending the crisis. "
Indicated that nearly half of the unemployed Lorca have "little or very little chance of finding a job" and recalled that the PP Mayor Francisco Jodar, "takes three years to see them come," and putting other issues to seeking solutions for Lorca main concern.
Source: PSOE Lorca
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