The Cieza City Council will shortly receive from the Government of Spain an economic injection of € 145,841 to cover the most urgent social needs in the face of the socioeconomic consequences caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is a budget item from an extraordinary credit of € 300,000,000 approved a few days ago by the Council of Ministers of the Government of Spain.
The € 145,841 is the proportion corresponding to Cieza of the allocation directed to the Region of Murcia, which will be an amount of € 9,284,806, and as specified in the Royal Decree Law and in the distribution agreement of The credits, its purpose is to guarantee and reinforce the Basic Social Services Benefits throughout the national territory.
These benefits are aimed at offering direct financial support to families in greatest need, emergency aid for the purchase of food, medicine and the payment of basic bills, as well as home support measures for the most vulnerable, isolated or disabled people. .
The mayor of Cieza, Pascual Lucas, has stated that it is "an important economic injection as a shock measure to face all the consequences that the pandemic is causing and the pertinent confinement made for its eradication, and that it is of great help to add to all the measures that the Cieza City Council has already implemented and will continue to implement in the coming days aimed at neighbors, the self-employed, businesses and businesses. It is important to defeat the disease and then it will be important to support all those who they need it so that the return to normality is as traumatic as possible. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza