The Local Council in Mijas approved last Wednesday, during the ordinary plenary session, the update of the criteria of the Ordinance of Aid to people with Functional Diversity.

As explained by the councillor for Social Services, Hipólito Zapico (PSOE), this new document aims to add modifications that will allow increasing the amounts of these grants, while simplifying the processes for granting them, thus making them more agile. Zapico listed during the presentation of this update some of the sections that have been modified in said regulation. One of them is the minimum degree of disability to access these grants, which rises to 45% in the case of adults, while for those under 18 it will remain at 33%. The so-called annual Iprem is also increased to 45%, an economic indicator that will allow the amount of the minimum benefits to be increased to 1,694 euros and the maximum to 3,050 euros.

Disability over economic criteria

The degrees of disability and dependency will also now have more weight than the economic criteria. “From the Local Government in Mijas we understand that people with a high degree of disability have high expenses to cover the different therapies they need and we believe that it is the most appropriate way, and the Association for People with Disabilities of Mijas has also seen it to be a good idea (Adimi), with whom we have agreed on the document”, said the councillor.

Also, as explained by Zapico, “the minimum period registered at the Town Hall is reduced to three years”.

In this regard, the councillor of the PP, Carmen Márquez, was not very supportive, as she considered that “there will be those who cheat and register in the municipality to receive the aid”. Given this, the opposition abstained in their vote, which finally went forward with the votes of PSOE and Ciudadanos.

During their intervention, the Partido Popular claimed to agree with the content of the ordinance but not with the procedures for processing it, recalling that “last year’s aid has not yet been paid”.

In response to this, councillor Zapico clarified that the ordinance that was approved in the ordinary session of July does not condition the call for aid in 2021. Likewise, he specified that both the aid for 2020 and for this year have already been raised to the Department for Intervention.

The procedures for the modification of this ordinance began last November and the document was exhibited to be studied by the general public and during this period it did not receive any allegations.

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