Yolanda Díaz commits in Congress to raising the IPREM and approving a universal child-rearing benefit

May 29. () –

The second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has committed in the control session this Wednesday in Congress to revalue the Multiple Effects Public Income Indicator (IPREM), which serves as a reference for the allocation of aid and subsidies. , since “sooner or sooner” there will be a universal benefit for dependent children of 200 euros.

These commitments were verbalized in response to a question from the deputy secretary general and deputy of the PP, Jaime de Olano, about the increase in poverty in Spain as a consequence of the Government’s policies.

In his question time, the deputy assured that extreme poverty already reaches four million people and, according to a Unicef ​​report that he cited, the country has the “highest child poverty rate in the European Union.” “Their thing is socialism, poverty and misery. Nothing more than that,” said the PP representative in the Lower House.

DÍAZ RECOGNIZES THAT INEQUALITY IS “UNACCEPTABLE”

In her response, Yolanda Díaz stressed that inequality in Spain “is absolutely unacceptable”, with a level of 20.2%, but she recalled that the highest record in the series was with a PP Government, when stood at 22.3%.

This reduction, the Minister of Labor has argued, has been produced by measures such as the Temporary Employment Regulation Files (ERTE), the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI), the revaluation of the IPREM and pensions with the CPI, among others and the Minimum Living Income has been created.

All of these measures, Díaz has asserted, which the PP has opposed and which if they had not been carried out, would have left Spain with a poverty level of 48%. But the leader of Sumar has stressed that the greatest factor of inequality in Spain is housing, and precisely the ‘popular’ autonomous communities refuse to apply the Housing Law, which allows price control policies to be deployed.

“Despite you, we are going to continue reducing inequality. We are going to raise the IPREM and sooner or later we are going to have a universal dependent child benefit of 200 euros,” Yolanda Díaz concluded.