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Last week the government, social partners and the dependency sector celebrated the emergency plan in the dependency, which culminated in six months of dialogue and negotiation.

According to the consensus of all the actors, an impulse to face the challenges of the sector and draw an X-ray of it, in addition to assuming an economic injection that reversed years of cuts.

However, 283 million euros that were approved in Congress for the communities have not materialized.

Social Services approved this shock plan, which contemplates a budgetary impact estimated at an increase of at least 600 million euros compared to 2020. In addition, the level agreed between the General State Administration and the communities was established. autonomous financing of the System for Autonomy and Dependency Care, with an endowment of

283,197,420 euros

But in the project of

State's general budgets

by 2021, approved by Congress and the

Senate

and published in the BOE dated December 31, it appears that the establishment of the level agreed between the General State Administration and the autonomous communities of financing of the System for Autonomy and Dependency Care will have an endowment of

566,394,840 euros

.

Just twice.

The ERC amendment

During the proceedings in the Budget Congress, an amendment was approved that presented

ERC

that included this matter: to finance the autonomous communities with 566 million euros in the System for Autonomy and Care for Dependency.

Double the amount proposed by the Government in its project. The gap between what the Budget law and the Dependency plan collects is, therefore, 283 million.

What happened then? Sources consulted by this newspaper explain that although in the drafting of the final Budget law there is funding for the communities of 566 million, the amendment presented by ERC would not have been incorporated into the Budgets due to technical defects. They explain that it was a troublesome amendment and that it ultimately fell off.

Hence, they were not included in the shock plan in the Dependency, agreed with the social partners and the autonomies.

However, it is in the final and official wording in the public accounts.

The question in the Senate

A circumstance, moreover, of which they are not aware of either the ERC or the dependency sector.

Without going any further, the Republican formation -which promoted the measure and is a partner of Moncloa's governance- registered this Wednesday in the Senate some questions to the Government in which, precisely, its senators

Bernat Picornell

and

Adelina Escandell

remind the Executive of the following: The "new wording for point two of the additional provision one hundred and twenty-ninth, which establishes that the allocation of the System for Autonomy and Care for Dependency will amount to a total of 566,394,840 euros, substantially higher than provided for in the draft law on General State Budgets presented by the government for debate. "And in their letter they ask how this increase in funds destined to guarantee compliance with the financing of the Dependency Law will be conveyed, as well as as the execution schedule that it foresees for the fulfillment of point two of the additional provision one hundred and twenty-ninth, an amount for which they also asked from the

Business Circle of Attention to People

(

CEAPs

).

"We ask that the approved amendment, which has passed through Congress and the Senate, and has been approved, and it is the law is complied with. We cannot tolerate that we speak of 600 million for dependency when we have to add another 566", exposes

Easter Ribbon

, president of CEAPs.

"The problem of dependency is that we do not have the financing." From this employer's association they consider that this increase in financing should serve to improve the working and salary conditions of the professionals of the Dependency Care and to "allow the care of people with extreme vulnerability ".

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