The Governing Council of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has agreed to triple the item of economic aid for social emergency situations destined to the municipalities of the Island, which goes from 100,000 to 300,000 euros, with which projects will be financed to prevent marginalization and social exclusion.
The president of the Corporation, María Dolores Corujo, highlighted "the important effort made by the first island institution to provide more resources to the agreement signed with the seven town councils", given the current socio-economic situation derived from the health crisis.
“We are aware of the difficulties that many families from Lanzarote are going through and we will do everything in our power to accompany and support them in these moments of uncertainty,” Corujo pointed out.
Through these subsidies, the Cabildo wants to provide support to people and family units that lack economic resources and in which risk factors concur.
In this sense, the Minister of Social Welfare, Isabel Martín, asserts that “these aids are intended to respond to exceptional situations of defined temporality, as support for integration processes in the context of social intervention.”
The distribution of funds among local corporations will be made according to the distribution criteria of the Economic and Fiscal Regime, in 85%, while the remaining 15% will obey the unemployment data of October 2017.
According to these criteria, Arrecife corresponds to 118,094.13 euros; Teguise, 43,510.50; Tías, 39,677.70; San Bartolomé, 37,021.41; Yaiza, 32,907.72; Tinajo, 15,484.77; and the municipality of Haría, a total of 13,303.77 euros.
