16 months after the agreement, the Basque Executive will assume the full transfer and without time limit. The first deputy lehendakari, Josu Erkoreka, celebrates that they will be able to “make life easier for citizens” although he has lamented “the slow pace” of compliance with the Statute.
The meeting of the Mixed Transfer Commission, which was attended by the highest representatives of the Basque and Spanish governments, certified this Wednesday the transfer of the provision of the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) to the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV).
The signing, almost two years after what was agreed in the transfer calendar, has taken place in Madrid, and constitutes the formal step for the Basque Executive to assume the processing, recognition and payment of this benefit, which together with the Income Income Guarantee (RGI), will depend on lanbide. Citizens will be able, in this way, to request all the aid in one one stop shop. The transfer, with a value of 187 million euros, will materialize in full and without a time limit, overcoming the reluctance raised by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá.
At the press conference after the solemn act, the First Vice-Lehendakari, Joshua Erkoreka, has highlighted the importance of the signature, which represents a new transfer for Euskadi but also “an advance in the recognized Self-government”. Likewise, he has highlighted that this transfer “will allow us to make life easier for citizensthose who find themselves in a situation where they need help to reach the minimum income threshold to lead a decent life, now have a “single window”.
“We have shown that it is possible to negotiate, agree and take constructive steps without breaking anything on taboo subjects like the one in the Social Security“, he pointed out.
Erkoreka, who was accompanied by the second deputy leader, Idoia Mendia, and the Minister for Public Governance, Olatz Garamendi, also wanted to carry out “a little slap on the wrist” due to the slow pace of compliance with the Gernika Statute, with twenty powers still to be transferred. Thus, he recalled that the last Mixed Transfer Commission was held in May 2021, and that the previous one was in June 2020; “we are going to a slow pace,” he lamented.
However, he has trusted that, “with the commitment of the Spanish Government embodied in a transfer schedule” and “the PNV-PSE coalition agreement that is committed to full compliance with the Statute”, both the Basque Country and the Spanish State will culminate with “success” the negotiations. “What we need, now, is to press the accelerator of the Gernika Statute which this year turns 43 and has not yet been completed”, he claimed.
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Source: Eitb
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