THE GOVERNMENT INJECTS 117 MILLION MORE TO THE DEPENDENCY

EL GOBIERNO INYECTA 117 MILLONES MAS A LA DEPENDENCIA

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The government injected € 117 more to dependence

The Government strives to provide enough Dependency Act despite restrictions imposed by economic crisis. With this in mind and given the increase in provision recognized beneficiaries, the Cabinet today approved raising 117 million euros the minimum funding Dependency Act stipulated for this year, as ABC had anticipated.

The figure represents an increase of 15% over the initial budget was estimated at 1,287 million euros. Thus the final credit for this year amount to 1,405 million euros, 119 more than the 2011. With this figure, which will be distributed to the regions, the government guarantees nationwide minimum level of protection to all people who have some degree of agency recognized. The increased endowment is that since January this year has increased by 21,252 the number of beneficiaries with provision recognized. In October this year, a total of 1,005,000 recipients withentitled to some kind of benefit.

Increased protection

The measure guarantees amid a severe recession situation, a minimum level of protection, especially after the Interregional Council, which represents all the regions, agreed to reform the system, which has led to a decline in spending 835 million euros.

The savings mainly affected the economic benefits of family caregivers who, despite being considered by the service catalog as exceptional, came to absorb 46% of the budget would Dependency Act. Then he decided to reduce by 15% this aid to maintain the other services. The combined effect of both measures is to increase the minimum level of protection, according to the Ministry