- Candelaria Delgado announced in Parliament that as of November 1,300,000 euros in aid have already been paid and that the forecast is that another 100,000 euros will be added through a credit extension
- To date, the Government has paid 390,000 euros through another emergency aid line to cover basic necessities for women.
The Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families, Candelaria Delgado, announced in a parliamentary response about the aid to women victims of gender violence contemplated in Article 27 of the State Law against Gender Violence that this year "the largest amount of money in recent years will be paid to cover the needs of the victims." To date, the Canary Islands Equality Institute (ICI) has already disbursed 1.3 million euros, to which are added another 390,000 euros given to the councils as emergency aid so that women can cover essential expenses.
According to the figures managed by the ICI, the body that processes the aid contemplated in article 27 of the law, so far in 2024, 224 aid applications have been received. Many of them have already been processed and others are in the review or documentation requirement phase.
As the counselor detailed, "in 2023, given the delay accumulated by the previous government, only 750,974.82 euros were paid; for this reason, that same amount was included in the 2024 budget, which was prepared based on actual spending. However, charged to the current year's budget, to date 1.3 million euros have been paid and the forecast is that this amount will increase by 100,000 euros more this year, to be able to meet the requests submitted and those that were left unresolved from previous years.”
"This means - he stressed - that we have allocated almost double what was planned in the initial budget for the year to this aid, which shows that we fulfill our commitment to serve the women who require our help."
The counselor insisted on the importance of this aid to alleviate the difficulties of women victims of gender violence. “What is reflected in the initial budget is not as important as the management that is carried out throughout the year, because that is what those who need it really receive,” explained Delgado.
As reported by the person in charge of the department in Parliament, the forecast is that from the beginning of the current legislature until the end of this year, almost 600 of these aids will be resolved.
Are aids They are aimed at victims of gender violence with few resources and special difficulties in obtaining employment. Its objective is to guarantee women their economic rights and facilitate their social integration and personal autonomy.
The aid consists of a single payment that, in general, is equivalent to six months of unemployment benefit, but this amount can increase up to twenty-four months of unemployment benefit, depending on the cases, when the victim of violence has family responsibilities in his or her care.
