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The City of Lorca lines increase aid to those affected by earthquakes (29/09/2011)

The Councillor for Social Services, Mari Carmen Ruiz, explained that "will facilitate the rehabilitation of vacant houses to be rented to those affected, will increase the maximum income limit requests for rent and advances extended by the number of monthly advanced to families with fewer resources. "

Councilwoman Social Services City of Lorca, Mari Carmen Ruiz, has reported that by agreement of the members of the Consistory officers Lorca Solidarity increase in the coming days the lines of aid to those affected by the May 11 earthquake to that allocates donations and collections of solidarity events that reach the municipal accounts.

Ruiz stressed that the new measures "will facilitate the rehabilitation of vacant houses to be rented to those affected, will increase the maximum income limit requests for rent and advances extended by the number of monthly payments to families with advanced fewer resources. "

The mayor explained that "in recent days, the solidarity of the Consistory accounts have received several major donations, such as those from the collection made by the Foundation CajaMurcia, the draw for the OID or several benefit concerts, which have led to increased about 600,000 euros of the balance we had a few weeks ago and we have several income for the coming weeks that will allow us to help more families and more money, taking into account that each day that passes without the Lorca receive aid from other administrations the situation is more complicated. "

Mari Carmen Ruiz said that "in the forthcoming Local Government will approve the base to be eligible for the new lines to support the victims, which will remain open as long as the available balance in the accounts without compromising or until determined by the Bureau Solidarity, whichever comes first. "

However, the council has explained that the ultimate destination of the funds will be rehabilitated to allow private empty homes that have no option of receiving money for this purpose or for compensation or aid consortium of Royal Decree, with the commitment that are rented to affected poor.

This measure will allow the owners do not pay the cost of repairing the house, up to 6,000 euros, it will be paid with the lump sum advance of the monthly rent amount to the amount advanced.

Thus, neither tenants nor landlords have to worry about during the first months (until about one year) to whether aid will reach the Royal Decree or not.

Once the Joint Commission granted rental assistance to affected will be deducted to reimburse the sum advanced in the accounts of solidarity.

Advances rent to families with less than 1,600 euros a month income

However, the measure is expected to benefit more Lorca will be to increase beneficiaries of the advances of three months' rent, because if so far the monthly maximum income threshold of households was 1,300 euros, this amounts to cutting 1,600 euros per household and also may be increased taking into account special circumstances such as large families.

Finally, it has agreed to authorize the advancement of two more monthly payments to those families who already has three months' advance and still have not received aid from the royal decree.

Mari Carmen Ruiz stressed that "even the money available is quite limited, we will try to stretch their performance to the maximum benefit to as many people as possible, especially with regard to housing assistance, which is the basic and most urgent folly , so that once returned these advances will be reused for the purposes determined by the Bureau for Development, according to the needs of the moment ".

The council has indicated that the Bureau for Development is the agency that the city of Lorca created in the interests of transparency and to raise the target by consensus of the donations that come to the municipal accounts, because it integrates the three municipal groups and parliamentarians of the Regional Assembly, Lorca Platform May 11, the Association of May '11, we Lorca ', the Committee for Aid to Lorca, the Mayor, representatives of the Regional Government, and now also of the Government Delegation also Consulate of Ecuador and Morocco and other neighborhood representatives.

Ruiz has concluded that "we are confident that these measures will encourage companies and individuals around the country to continue making donations to the City, especially considering the fiscal year end in the coming months as part of their tax deductible contributions can be supportive if you provide your tax information, like an NGO. "

In this sense, citizens are tax deductible by 25% of the donation in the tax declaration and businesses 35% Corporation Tax, with the conditions set in the Law of Patronage.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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