Last week, the Governing Council approved an extraordinary aid of 250 euros for people receiving non-contributory pensions, in its retirement and disability modality, and families receiving the PCI.
This aid, which is intended to compensate for the expenses incurred in masks, gels, etc... will benefit more than 50,000 families, expresses the will of a government, and the Ministry of Social Rights, not to leave anyone behind in this crisis.
The importance of this has to do with making a reality of something that has been talked about for a long time but that no government in the Canary Islands had yet done, to financially support non-contributory pensioners, those with the lowest pensions, who in the Canary Islands are more than 43,000 people and their respective families.
Within that number, the percentage of women reaches 60 percent, we are talking about people who have worked all their lives but never contributed: women who have done invisible care work, rural women working in the fields without contribution, who have raised their families raising their sons and daughters, a little recognized work but without which no society can function.
It is to them, especially, that we owed measures of this type, which is why it is difficult to understand the reaction of some political sectors, who, emulating the discourse of noble and privileged surnames of the plateau, have spoken of handouts. I am convinced that beyond reacting in this way, because as an opposition they must say something, they basically understand the importance of this first step.
And it is a first step because, beyond being a specific and extraordinary aid, it marks a path, the one that also began in that Governing Council with the approval of the preliminary draft of the citizen income law of the Canary Islands, which did not have so much impact, and which includes a modality of complement to non-contributory pensioners, which will not be a specific aid but a right to consolidate over time.
Improving the lives of these people is an act of historical justice in our land, one of the ones with the highest number of beneficiaries of PNC in the entire State, and it is also feminism, it is putting life at the center.
Canarian society as a whole, and the institutions in particular, owe a debt to these people and to these women, we owe it to them.
