The Commission reminded the Andalusian PSOE that Pedro Sánchez’s wallet card model has left food banks and soup kitchens stranded, as well as 280,000 Andalusians excluded from the new system. In this regard, … The Secretary General of Social Inclusion, Ana Vanessa García, highlighted that “the Ministry of Social Inclusion, Youth, Family and Equality launched a call for tenders worth 46 million euros for a mixed contract for the supply of food and/or basic material assistance to family units with minor dependents who are below the extreme poverty line, through a system of cards or physical or electronic vouchers.
The contract is in the award phase. This action is part of the Basic Material Assistance Program, co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and the Regional Government of Andalusia. The duration of the contract will be 24 months, extendable by an additional 24 months. which would bring the budget to the 92 million euros planned in the program, whose duration extends until 2029. García stressed that “the Commission, with this call for tenders, is committing to a program that has the greatest geographical capillarity”.
For this reason, and to encourage the participation of bidding companies and try to reach as many municipalities as possible, the market is divided into eight lots, one for each province. The model that the Andalusian Executive seeks to implement also recognizes the fundamental role of Community Social Services for the proper development of the program. Ana Vanessa García highlighted that “the Basic Material Assistance Program (Basic Program) It was designed as a homogeneous model for all of Spainin which the General State Administration was responsible for bidding for cards or vouchers through a framework agreement for the selection of suppliers.
However, he stressed, “the Spanish government changed its model and decided that this program would only be dedicated to families with minors in their care.” “With this decision, in Andalusia alone, the government of Pedro Sánchez has left 280,000 Andalusians out of this aid,” he stressed. Likewise, he stressed that “the Central Executive was incapable of implementing this system and asked the European Commission to implement it via a direct grant to a private entity for just six months in 2024..
“The transition program was a six-month program that the Spanish government published by royal decree”
The Secretary General of Social Inclusion highlighted that “the transition program is a six-month program that the Spanish government issued by publishing a royal decree which granted a direct subsidy to a private entity”. In this regard, he recalled that “this program was made possible thanks to the efforts of the autonomous community and community social services.”
Garcia censored this “the central government forced the autonomous communities to launch the program on their own which could not be implemented during the year 2024.” And, in addition, he regretted “that there is no possibility of changing it, to be able to accommodate more vulnerable groups in addition to families with minors in their care, nor of extending the deadline that a call for tenders of this magnitude implies”.
García emphasized that “before the socialist government launched this program and forced communities to take responsibility for its implementation, vulnerable families were taken care of in Andalusia.” “They have been taken care of, they are taken care of and they will continue to be taken care of,” he said flatly.
Andalusia serves families through the Minimum Social Integration Income in Andalusia (RMISA), which In 2025 alone, it will have more than 21 million credits executedfinancial aid to families with more than 15 million intended to combat child poverty in the 2025 budget, with subsidies intended for soup kitchens which have 4.9 million and with the development of 140 summer schools with an additional five million in 2025, among other aid, subsidies or programs carried out in Andalusia.
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