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| The communities of Murcia and Madrid are the only ones in Spain to "rob" their elders of extraordinary payments by requiring them to pay double in June and December | The IU councilor of Lorca, Pedro Sosa and the regional Deputy of PODEMOS, Mar�a Mar�n, present in Lorca the joint initiative that they will defend in the Regional Parliament and in the town councils of the Region Mar�a Mar�n, Spokesperson for PODEMOS in the Regional Assembly was visiting the Lorca City Council this morning to present, together with the Municipal Spokesperson of IU, Pedro Sosa, a political initiative that both formations will defend both in the Autonomous Parliament as in all those city councils of the Region in which there is presence of either of the two political formations.
It is an initiative that was already discussed a few years ago in the Lorca City Council, with another municipal corporation different from the current one, with a different local government, with a regional government that was also different at that time.
with an absolute majority and, above all, in the context of circumstances that are completely different from those existing today.
For this reason, both political formations have decided to insist again now.
The initiative is aimed at the elderly who are users of nursing homes for the elderly in the Region.
A group that, both representatives recalled, is undoubtedly the most vulnerable in the health crisis we are experiencing.
With it, they intend that the elderly residents recover the extraordinary payments that, for years, have been stolen from them at the unfair public price charged to them.
The proponents of the motion have recalled that with the onset of the previous economic crisis, the Regional Government, from its political and ideological logic, adopted a package of measures to address the same, among which stood out, due to its importance and effects, the suppression of the extraordinary pay of December 2012 to the thousands of civil servants on the CARM payroll.
But there were other measures of that package that went more unnoticed, and one of them, the subject of this motion, affected a group as vulnerable as that of the elderly users of nursing homes for the elderly in the Region to which, from that moment, they began to include the extraordinary payments that they charged in the calculation base that determined their monthly contribution as "public price" to the residences .A contribution that, until then, only took into account the twelve ordinary payments of the year.
As we know, the officials affected by the suppression of the extraordinary payments recovered this income throughout these years.
And, with this joint IU / PODEMOS initiative, what is intended now is that this recovery of rights that reached the civil servants, is extended and expanded also for the elderly users of the residences of the seniors.
A measure that could affect more than 200 residents of Lorca, distributed between the residences of San Diego and CASER, and about 2,500 in the whole of the Region of Murcia, users of nursing homes for the elderly (pï Public or concerted) The legal basis on which the proposed measure rests is evident.
That in the Region of Murcia 14 public prices are being paid for being in a residence instead of the 12 that are paid in the rest of Spain, clearly contravenes at least 2 provisions of the Constitution ½n Espaà ± ola.
Article 50, which provides that: "the public authorities shall guarantee, through adequate and periodically updated pensions, the economic sufficiency of citizens during the elderly," and Article 139.1 of the Constitution that guarantees "the equality of all Spaniards regardless of where they reside" There is an obvious comparative grievance.
The elderly of any residence in Spain when they collect the extra payments for summer and Christmas, they can enjoy them for whatever they want.
It is their money and, no matter how large they are, they also have their expenses: funeral insurance, wheelchairs, clothing and footwear, prosthetics or medicines that are outside the health system.
But the Region of Murcia is different.
Here residents are required to pay double.
The agreement requires the CARM Governing Council to "urgently carry out the necessary procedures so that the users of the nursing homes of the Murcia Region as a whole - public and concerted - recover their extraordinary payments, ceasing to be subject to the calculation basis that determines the monthly contributions per resident position and, in addition, that this recovery of rights has retroactive effects and is returned to the elderly residents (or their families) what should never have been taken away from them.
Similarly, we urge the regional executive to revise upwards, and in an amount similar to that of other CCAA, the so-called "pocket money" that our seniors in residences in the Region of Murcia " function { ;(, , {});}
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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