After denouncing that since 2008, the bank offices open in the CAV have been reduced by 44%, Andueza has warned that this is joined by the limitation of operations that can be carried out at the teller window or the restriction of hours for certain procedures.
The PSE-EE will present initiatives in the town councils so that those administrations, companies and entities that offer services in the Basque municipalities guarantee the personalized attention to vulnerable groups such as the elderly.
The general secretary of the PSE, Eneko Anduezamet this Monday, together with the leader of the socialists of Bizkaia and mayor of Portugalete, Mikel Torres, with socialist aldermen in the Basque Autonomous Community and representatives in the consistories of the three capitals to analyze the phenomenon of the so-called “financial exclusion”.
In the subsequent press conference, Andueza warned of the “digital barrier” that administrations and companies are “raising in front of large groups of citizens”, a circumstance that represents an obstacle that occurs “especially in financial entities”.
After denouncing that since 2008, the bank offices open in the CAV have been reduced by 44%, Andueza has warned that this is joined by the limitation of operations that can be carried out at the window or the restriction of hours for certain procedures, in favor of online channels.
The Socialists, who have recognized that this is a problem that does not occur only in the CAV, have valued against the fact that in some parts of the State they are already working “on plans against financial exclusion”, something in which the CAV ” can’t be left behind.”
Source: Eitb
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