“The Government will explore legal avenues for a possible amnesty for vulnerable families who have received improper payments.” With this response, the Minister of Social Rights of the Generalitat, Mònica Martínez Bravoresponded in the Parliament to the ‘chaos’ generated by a “management failure” of the previous Ministry that granted the Guaranteed Citizenship Income (RGC) benefit to thousands of citizens to whom it did not correspond.
The Generalitat has encrypted 2,829 cases of improper paymentsa conclusion reached after detecting 12,500 potential cases, from which additional information was requested to evaluate whether they had received aid. During her appearance before the Commission on Social Rights and Inclusion in Parliament, the counselor specified that the intention is to “render undue payments void” as long as the vulnerability of the recipients is documented and there has been no bad faith, reports Ep .
Martínez Bravo has stated that demanding the return of payments contradicts the objective of the provision of «fight against exclusion and vulnerability”, since the claim of an undue payment initiates a judicial procedure of seizure and suspensions that prevents those affected from requesting other aid.
«The system is not in step with the volume that the service generates: there is a lack of digital infrastructure and computer human resources. Management is manual and, to do it this way, 2,000 people would have to be hired. Now we have a hundred,” he explained. Martinez Bravo in Parliament.
Likewise, it has committed to looking for digital tools that allow the amounts to be reviewed automatically every three months. “It is not a administrative error nor of the officials, it is a problem in the design of a benefit that makes no sense in the 21st century,” he stated.
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