The Government approved on Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, in the first round, the draft law presented by the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, for the reform of the laws of disability and dependence, which “shields the dependency system” and It adapts to “the needs of the 21st century”according to Europa Press.
“This reform that we present today ends the cuts of the Popular Party, shields the dependency system and designs a care model that strengthens the welfare status and projects it towards the needs of the 21st century,” Bustinduy said Tuesday, in The press conference after the Council of Ministers.
As indicated, the challenge “is not only to serve more people” but “to do so in such a way that the right to well -being, the right to autonomy, the right to autonomy, is guaranteed right to an independent life«Y» move towards a model that allows people to remain at their home «the time they wish, with the necessary support and services.
Among other measures, the minister stressed that two rights are approved: the right to telecare, which becomes understood as a subjective right, with a preventive approach; and the right to universal accessibility, as required by article 49 of the Constitution.
Among other objectives, the reform seeks «expedite administrative processesavoiding bureaucratic overloads «and, therefore, the reform includes measures such as the assimilation of the people who have officially recognized a dependency situation (to any degree) to a 33%disability.
Likewise, with the objective of “eliminating rigidities and inefficiencies” and improving the “flexibility” of the system, the preliminary draft suppresses the regime of incompatibilities between different benefits that, as sources from the Ministry remember, was “imposed with the 2012 cuts. This measure It will allow people to receive several aid simultaneously, for example, the day center and home help.
Likewise, the two -year suspensive period is eliminated that delayed access to economic benefit for family environment and administrative procedures are simplified in the review of the individual care program (PIA).
At the same time, an emergency procedure is established for situations of special vulnerability, along the same lines as the ELA law, in case of dementias, social isolation, gender violence or economic precariousness, factors that will allow reorder the treatment of files.
On the other hand, the economic benefit for care in the family environment is extended, allowing that it can also receive help when care is provided by pairs, friends or other people closely, responding to new situations of coexistence or situations of people living alone .
In addition, the home help service that was focused on personal and domestic care needs extends to actions in the community environment, being able to expand to activities such as making the purchase or going to the doctor.
The reform also includes a series of measures to facilitate this concretion of the right to universal accessibility, such as the creation of a Fund for the Promotion of Universal Accessibility, which will be occupied with undertaking all the work that is necessary so that the spaces and public services are accessible, for example, within the National Health System or in state museums.
In short, Bustinduy stressed that it is “an ambitious reform” and “extraordinarily positive” for the change of the care model, and has assured that “it is accompanied by an unprecedented effort in the financing of the agency.” As he said, in 2024, the 3,411 million financing for the unit of agency from the General State Administration was reached.
«This is a historical maximum. It represents 150% more than with respect to 2018 and 200% more than with respect to 2014. There are few precedents in the field of public policies and social policies of a budget effort of this nature, ”he emphasized.
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