The PSC candidate for the May elections, Salvador Illa, has launched today a social proposal, aimed at a sector of the population that he considers suffers a high risk of poverty, that of single-parent families, which is why he proposes expanding the aid that they receive until they gradually equate them to what large families already receive in Catalonia.
In a note released by the party, Illa commits to carrying out this improvement "hand in hand with representative entities to take advantage of the rights acquired with the new family law of the Government of Pedro Sánchez." “The improvements in aid are aimed at all areas,” he assures, such as culture, universities, education or the guaranteed income of citizenship.
In this sense, the candidate proposes to facilitate access and maintenance of the single-parent family card by eliminating bureaucracy, so that it will not be necessary to update this card every three or four years and "an update will only be necessary when the first child reaches the age of 21 years,” they point out. In this way, they consider that they eliminate one of the risks of access to benefits due to the delay that updates currently register.
“We are concerned about the high rates of child poverty in Catalonia (1 in 4) and also about the Government's inability to apply policies in this area during the last decade,” justifies Illa, who also commits to launching “a strategy against child poverty” with the participation and assistance of all the ministries involved, with a “broad parliamentary agreement” and with the creation of the figure of the high commissioner against child poverty, something that both Junts and ERC “have refused.” to vote repeatedly in Parliament,” they remember.
The socialists point out some data about this social reality such as the existence of 70,000 accredited single-parent families in Catalonia, or the risk of poverty, a risk of poverty estimated at 40% according to Idescat data from 2023, and the fact that one in every Four children are at risk.
