The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, announced this Thursday, in a speech at the awards of La Confederación, the business association of the Third Sector, that during the first week of November the Government will make effective the 5% increase in social rates planned for this year while at the same time it has committed to working so that the Third Sector law this legislature is effective.
Illa has pointed out that the third sector law will give “legal recognition and coverage” to the work of this sector to which he has promised “permanent dialogue” to reach concrete actions. “Catalonia cannot allow a quarter of the population to be at risk of poverty,” said the president Therefore, it has expressed its commitment to ensuring that prosperity “is shared” and to “deploying all social and social protection policies” within its reach.
The Parliament had approved the need to update social rates in 2025 and Illa has referred to her willingness to comply with that commitment now. The Taula of the Third Sector asked a week ago at an event on inequalities and territory what the priorities should be in the new public accounts. The president of Taula, Francina Alsina, focused on two aspects: housing and social benefits and that there be a pattern that updates rates with objective models.
The Minister of Social Rights, Mònica Martínez Bravo announced this Tuesday in an appearance in Parliament that that the Government would promote an amnesty for all those people that in theory they must return an amount of aid that was assigned to them by mistake. The will of your ministry is also to update the income sufficiency indicator of Catalonia (IRSC).