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Adoración Peñas: "the recovery of rights that reaches officials should be extended to the most vulnerable people like our elders"

In 2012, the Regional Government adopted a package of measures to deal with the economic crisis, among which the removal of the extraordinary pay of December of that year was highlighted by its importance and effects to the thousands of CARM payroll officers.

Other measures of this package went unnoticed even though they affected a group as vulnerable as the elderly, users of the residences of the elderly of the Region, who from that moment and by virtue of Law 6 / 2012 of June 29 on Tax, Social, Economic and Administrative Measures of the Region of Murcia, promoted and promoted by the parliamentary group of the Regional Assembly, began to include the extraordinary payments that they charged in the calculation base that Determines the monthly contribution of the same to the residences;

A contribution that, until then, only took into account the twelve ordinary payments of the year.

The councilor of IU-V in the City of Lorca, Adoración Peñas, who is also the regional responsible for Social Policy of IU-Green of the Region of Murcia, claims that the recovery of rights that finally reaches the officials , Extends also to the collective of elderly people who use the homes of the elderly, and for this purpose seeks to promote from Lorca, through an initiative that will defend in the next municipal plenary, that it is the City Council of our town that is Direct the regional government demanding that recovery of rights for our elders.

The mayor of IU-V has advanced that the measure could affect more than 200 residents of Lorca spread between the residences of San Diego and CASER, and about 2,500 in the whole Region of Murcia users of senior residences (public Or concerted).

The councilor of IU-V supports this initiative by stating that few social groups are as vulnerable as older people, and yet some of the most important cuts in the welfare state that have occurred in recent years coinciding with The crisis has had more direct damage to this group: insufficient financing of the rights of dependents, pharmaceutical co-payment, drastic reduction of home care services and other social benefits, etc.

To which we should add the effects in terms of effective and progressive loss of the purchasing power of our elders that have been the last reforms of the pensions promoted by the Government of the Nation.

Adoración Peñas abounds in his argumentario affirming that all of the above contravenes the provisions of the Spanish Constitution that in article 50 states that: "the public powers will guarantee, through adequate pensions and periodically updated, the economic sufficiency to the citizens during the third age.

In addition, regardless of family obligations, they will promote their well-being through a system of social services that will address their specific health, housing, cultural and leisure problems. "

It should be remembered, says Adoración Peñas, that this "continued robbery" of our elderly people since 2012 emulated a similar initiative adopted by the government of the neighboring community of Castilla-La Mancha, then chaired by the now Defense Minister María Dolores de Cospedal .

From then on a "comparative grievance" was established with respect to the rest of Spanish autonomous regions, where the elderly people, and those with disabilities living in a residence, enjoy their extra payments.

And this, in the opinion of the councilor of IU-V violates Article 139.1 of the Constitution, which guarantees the equality of all Spaniards regardless of where they reside.

Adoración Peñas affirms that according to denounce the users of residences and the relatives of the same, with the money of the extraordinary payments could be taken care of expenses that do not cover their places of residence, such as insurance of deaths, wheelchairs, dress and footwear, Prostheses or medicines that are outside the health system.

Therefore, during these years the measure of the PP has only impoverished our elders who, on the other hand, were already in the queue of Spanish pensions.

Adoración Peñas hopes that the City of Lorca will be receptive to this initiative that seeks to urge the Governing Council of CARM to urgently carry out the necessary procedures so that the users of the residences of elderly people - public and concerted - recover their extraordinary payments , Being no longer subject to the calculation basis that determines the monthly contributions per resident's place.

If not, the Councilor of IU-V and regional manager of Social Policy of IU-V-RM, does not rule out bringing the matter to the Ombudsman of Spain on the basis of the grievance that implies for the elderly to reside in an autonomous community Such as that of Murcia, in addition to the evident violation of the principle of equality of all Spaniards regardless of their residence.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca