The Minister of Family and Equal Opportunities, Thomas Violante, accompanied by the PP spokesman in the city of Bullas, Maria Antonia Abril, today visited the municipality of Bullas, in the events planned to mark the election campaign.
In addition to talking to people from the town and visit its weekly market, Thomas Violante has met with representatives of different social groups in the city, NGOs, women's associations and Spanish Association Against Cancer, among others.
He declared "to the Executive is a priority Murcia support families who need it most is why the regional government resolved in less than two months the payment records of the Basic Income Insertion.
We ended the waiting list to receive the benefit, which is one of the commitments we made at the start of the Legislature .. "
This year has been paid to providing 5,297 families, representing some 14,302 people benefited, amounting to 10.65 million euros.
"In 2015 I was initially budgeted at 8.7 million and Pedro Antonio Sánchez wanted to all applications received will attend, starting increasing to 10.6 million.
In the next year has increased the allocation to 14 million euros, our intention is to reach 16,000 people, will allow serve 1,000 more than 2015 families, about 6,000 families, "said the minister, adding that" it has been titanic the effort that has been made in the payment of this benefit in just one year, we are talking about 49.3% more families served. "
Source: PP Región de Murcia