Cinema, video games, shows and books, preferences of the holders of the digital wallet with 400 euros
Cinema, video games, shows and books. These are the preferences of those who have the Youth Cultural Bonus, the €400 grant awarded by the Ministry of Culture to those who will turn 18 in 2022 and who have already “invested” €3.6 million. An initiative that wants to be legally protected and that, according to the government, will be enjoyed by young adults in 2023.
Since the end of the voucher application period, on October 31, and until December 18, 99,371 surgeries have been performed in the institutions that have joined the initiative, which according to Culture “represents a total investment of EUR 3,626,943.51 in the December was the month with the most operations, with 55,577 purchases of cultural goods between day 1 and day 18, worth almost two million euros.
Although the deadline for companies to join is still open, there are 2,115 members so far, some of them with multiple offices in Spain. This translates into 3,114 available outlets, adding up the 743 pending requests.
Young people have one year from the granting of the support to spend the 400 euros on cultural products or services. The voucher works with a prepaid card issued by Correos that the beneficiary can have virtually on his mobile or physically receive at home. This allows them to spend 100 euros on physical products, such as books, newspapers or records; another 100 in digital products, such as digital press, ‘podcasts’ or online video games, and 200 in performing arts: theatre, opera, film, dance or museums.
The bonus will be consolidated in the General State Budget 2023 with an already consigned item of 210 million euros. In addition, Culture is already preparing the royal decree that will regulate its implementation. “The experience of the first edition and the improvements made will be taken into account for the optimization of the application and processing system,” says the ministry led by Miquel Iceta. He highlights how, in his view, the bond “helps to retain young people as audiences and cultural consumers for the future”, and also “provides additional support for the cultural sector to recover from the crisis”, with an investment of more than 112 million euros”.
Source: La Verdad
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