The Regional Union of Private Institutions of Social Solidarity of the Azores (URIPSSA) defended this Friday a reinforcement of support with retroactivity to January of this year due to inflation, with respect to the Plan and Budget of the region for 2023.
Speaking to journalists, after a meeting with the leader of the Government of the Azores at the Presidency headquarters, in Ponta Delgada, João Caneto, from URIPSSA, stressed that in 2021, when these institutions reach a “basic agreement” with the Regional Government, “The current levels of inflation were not anticipated.”
“What we ask the president of the Regional Government is that this year we could make an addendum to the 2021-22 base agreement and start planning for the year 2023,” he said.
João Caneto highlighted that the levels of inflation caused an increase in the expenses of the Private Institutions of Social Solidarity (IPSS), which has already led the Government of the Republic to update the agreement with the institutions of the continent.
“Inflation has increased and the central government, through the Ministry of Social Solidarity, has increased the IPSS. We here in the region have not yet had it. We are waiting for us to make this agreement also here in the region so that we do not have sustainability problems”, she reinforced.
The URIPSSA representative also proposed incentives for the “digital transition” of the IPSS and called for “political stability”, so that “the institutions can do their job as they please”.
The representative of Misericórdias dos Açores, Bento Barcelos, defended the need to update the bed-user-day values of the regional network of continuous care and called for the creation of a financing line for organizations.
“Some grants have been in a financial situation for some years, with liabilities, loans, the need for sustainability and financial recovery,” he stressed.
Bento Barcelos also warned about the “need for political stability”, due to the inflationary and public health crisis, since the “pandemic [de covid-19] It’s not over yet.”
The President of the Government of the Azores (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM), the Social Democrat José Manuel Bolieiro, receives the social partners in relation to the preparation of the preliminary proposals for the Plan and Budget for 2023, which should be debated in November in the Regional Assembly.
The Regional Government (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM) depends on the support of the parties that make up the executive and those with which it has parliamentary advocacy agreements (IL, Chega and independent deputy) to have an absolute majority in the Regional Legislative Assembly. .
Source: Observadora
