Among other things, the reform includes the recognition of telecare for all people with dependence, the automatic recognition of 33% disability and the suppression of incompatibility between benefits.
The government approved on Tuesday in the council of ministers the Law law Presented by the Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, To reform the disability and dependency lawsIncluding measures, the recognition of telecare as a universal right for all people with dependence, the automatic recognition of 33% disability for people with some degree of dependence and the oppression of incompatibleities between benefits.
In the press conference after the Council of Ministers, Minister Bustinduy demanded the same consensus that allowed the reform of Article 49 of the Constitution in the courts, so that “he will see the light when before.”
Bustinduy has confirmed that this reform “ends with the cuts of the popular party, protects the dependency system and designs a care model that strengthens and projects the welfare state into the needs of the 21st century.”
In his words, the challenge “is not only to serve more people”, but “to do this that the right to good -the right to autonomy, the right to an independent life” and “go to a model that leaves that leaves People in their home “the time they want, with the necessary support and services. In fact, the dependency law is expected to be known as the law ‘of autonomy’.
The reform determines minimal and basic conditions, and everything it increases is mandatory. Among other things takeThe minister emphasized that two rights have been approved: the right to TelevisionThis is conceived as a subjective right, with a preventive approach; and the right to universal accessibility, as required by Article 49 of the Constitution.
Moreover, it is looking “Behinder Administrative processesAvoiding bureaucratic overloads “and therefore the reform includes measures such as the assimilation of people who have officially recognized a dependency situation (to what extent) to a handicap of 33%.
Also with the aim of eliminating “rigidities and inefficiencies” and improving the “flexibility” of the system, the provisional design suppresses the incompatibility regime Under various benefits that, as sources from the Ministry remember, was imposed with the budget cuts of 2012 ‘. With this measure, people can receive different help at the same time, for example the day center and home help.
At the same time, an emergency procedure is determined for situations of special vulnerability in the event of dementia, social isolation, gender violence or economic precarence, factors that restore the treatment of files.
Bustinduy emphasized that it is “an ambitious reform “and” extremely positive“For the change in the care model, and has assured that” it is accompanied by an unprecedented effort in financing the agency. “In that sense, the minister” categorically “denied that the funds for dependence in the agency frozen in 2024 and emphasized that, despite the budget extension, they increased by 213 million euros and transfers were completed to the communities of European funds for more Then 2,000 million euros.
Source: EITB
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