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The councilor of this training, Gloria Martín, has asked the local government team to enable a specific web page for this council that offers information on procedures, deadlines and documents related to social benefits, as well as the necessary forms to request them The councilor of Izquierda Unida-Verdes, Gloria Martín, has requested the municipal government team to reinforce the staff of the Social Services area of ??the City of Lorca to guarantee a rapid response to healthcare demand, increased due to the crisis generated by the COVID19. Martín explained that during the weeks in which other municipal services have been under minimal services, part of his staff, mainly statistical administrative assistants, was transferred to this area.

However, upon recovering from normal activity in the town hall, Social Services has lost six reinforcement workers, who are still necessary to deal with the multiple requests for information, advice or processing of social benefits by the residents of the municipality. Martín has highlighted the "enormous effort" made in recent weeks by Social Services personnel and support workers, and has shown his "concern" and "interest" that they have all the necessary human and technological resources to avoid physical and emotional exhaustion of a staff "that is attending to the neighbors even outside their working hours". Therefore, Gloria Martín has also asked the local government team to enable a specific website for the Department of Social Services that offers information on procedures, deadlines and documents related to social benefits, as well as the necessary forms to request them. The councilor of IU-Verdes understands that this tool would allow the Social Services professionals to download their jobs and save time for the residents who are now forced to make these consultations by phone or by appointment. Finally, the councilor of IU-Verdes has recalled that, due to the pandemic, more than 4,200 Lorca workers have been affected by temporary employment regulation files, which is reducing the economic capacity of these families, which in some cases, they have become new claimants for social benefits. In this sense, Martín recalled that for IU it is a "priority" to expand the necessary municipal resources to prevent any of them "from falling behind" because of a health crisis "that is already social and economic." For this reason, this training is committed to strengthening financial and personal resources while the social emergency situation lasts, so as to guarantee "quick and effective" attention to vulnerable people and groups, as approved in the extraordinary plenary session of the May 5.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca