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| Lorca City Council will approve next week the bases with the requirements to access aid for companies and self-employed affected by the health crisis | The Consistory finalizes the details "to streamline all this process and that in an easy and fast way all the interested parties can access the information and present the necessary documentation that allows them to benefit from this help that has been set in motion." The Councilor for Finance of the Lorca City Council, Isidro Abellán, has indicated that after the approval in the extraordinary plenary session of the Plan of economic and social measures against the effects of COVID-19, next week the bases will be approved by the Government Board with the requirements to access aid for businesses, hoteliers and all those companies and freelancers affected by the health crisis. The mayor of the Treasury has indicated that "the intention is to streamline this whole process and that, in an easy and fast way, all interested parties can access all the information, as well as present the necessary documentation that allows them to benefit from the aid put into March". Isidro Abellán recalled that "up to 1 million euros will be mobilized from the City Council for these grants, which will be arbitrated through a 'Municipal Fund for Aid to Self-Employed and Companies' of up to € 500 for companies and freelancers who carry out their activities among the that they have been obliged to suspend their opening to the public during the state of alarm, and up to € 350 specific for companies and the self-employed who are dedicated to sale in the weekly market and supply squares ". Abellán has specified that "it will be the beneficiaries themselves who decide what expenses will be financed with these grants, including the payment of leases, the acquisition of personal protective equipment (PPE), water, garbage and sewage costs corresponding to four months (2nd and 3rd bimester), Mechanical Traction Vehicles (IVTM) and Real Estate Tax (IBI) for all those self-employed and businessmen of commerce, retail services and catering and hospitality that have been they have been forced to close during the state of alarm, nor will the Market, Squares (Supplies and Vegetables) and kiosks be charged until their normal opening and the amounts paid will be returned during the time they have been closed. The Councilor for Finance explained that "for reasons of streamlining and simplifying the process, it has been decided to make effective the payment of the four months of water, garbage and sewerage in the package of eligible aid.

Once the bases have been approved, a they officiate at the public in the CDL where they will be informed and requests for this aid will be collected.

" For his part, the deputy mayor and councilor for Trade and Industry, Francisco Morales has stressed that "from the City of Lorca we are actively working from the outset so that the socioeconomic crisis that may arise due to the current health crisis is the least serious possible, and so that our self-employed, merchants, hoteliers, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, both from SMEs and large corporations, have the greatest possible support from their Town Hall, so we want to give the most speedy measures to this end approved by the Municipal plenary session ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca