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It also asks that Lorca joins the campaign that promotes the constitutional reform to make explicit with complete guarantee in the text of the Fundamental Law in maintenance of the purchasing power of pensions
Older people and their problems, so unrelated to local politics, will be protagonists of one of the items on the agenda of the next Municipal Plenary thanks to a motion that will defend the councilor of IU-V, Adoración Peñas.
Two distinct but closely related issues are addressed by the IU-V motion.
On the one hand demand the recovery of the extraordinary payments by the users of the residences of the third age, and on the other involve Lorca in the demand demanded by the groups of majors of all Spain to constitutionally guarantee the purchasing power of the pensions .
Adoración Peñas recalls that in 2012 the Regional Government, from its political and ideological logic, adopted a package of measures to deal with the economic crisis among which, due to its importance and effects, the abolition of the extraordinary payment of December Of that year to the thousands of staff on the payroll of CARM.
But there were other measures of that package that went unnoticed.
One of them affected a group as vulnerable as the elderly users of the residences of the elderly of the Region, which from that moment on began to include the extra payments they charged in the calculation base Which determines their monthly contribution to residences;
A contribution that, until then, only took into account the twelve ordinary payments of the year.
Since in the last weeks the officials affected by the suppression of the extra pay of December 2012 have recovered this income, IU-V intends that the recovery of rights that finally has reached the civil servants is extended and extended to the collective of The elderly users of the residences of the elderly.
A measure that could affect more than 200 residents of Lorca spread between the residences of San Diego and CASER, and about 2,500 in the Region of Murcia as a whole, users of senior residences (public or concerted).
What happened in 2012 with the users of the residences of the elderly of the Region of Murcia, affirms Peñas, contraverses in a clear way the provisions of the Spanish Constitution that in its article 50 states that: "the public powers will guarantee, through adequate pensions And periodically updated, economic sufficiency for citizens during the third age ... ".
It should be remembered 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 Maria Dolores de Cospedal.
From then on, Dori Peñas recalls, a "comparative grievance" was established with respect to the rest of Spanish autonomous communities, where elderly people, and those with disabilities living in a residence, enjoy their extra payments, which in all respects Article 139.1 of the Constitution, which guarantees the equality of all Spaniards regardless of where they reside.
The users of residences and their relatives report that the expenses of the extraordinary payments could cover expenses that do not cover their places of residence, such as death insurance, wheelchairs, clothing and footwear, prostheses or medicines that are Outside the health system.
The councilor of IU-V expects that before the social and territorial grievance exposed, the City of Lorca 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 - to recover their extraordinary payments, being no longer subject to the calculation base that determines the monthly contributions per place of resident, and, in addition, that this recovery of rights has retroactive effects and is returned to the largest residents Which should never have been removed.
In another order of things closely related to the above, IU-V will also raise in that motion the Plenary urge the Government of Spain to promote a reform of the Constitution that includes the express prohibition that any government, current or future, can touch , Cut or privatize, totally or partially, the Public Pension System.
An article that includes as a constitutional obligation the maintenance of the real purchasing power of pensions.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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