Disabled, “fund reduced by 10 millions". Martina: "shame". But it's a boomerang for the Democratic Party: the cut is made by the Gentiloni government
A statement from the League for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities denounced the cut in appropriations. And Martina immediately attacked the Lega-M5s executive on Facebook: “Yet another madness that only causes damage to those who are most fragile”. The Minister of the Fontana Family intervened to deny it: “It is disconcerting that a former minister does not know what his government was doing”. And the dem secretary deletes the post
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Ten million less for people with serious disabilities and devoid of family support. The news, which concerns a significant cut in resources expected for 2018 and the 2019, she ended up at the center of a sometimes paradoxical story. Because after the publication of a press release from Ledha, the League for the rights of people with disabilities, in which the president Alessandro Manfredi referred to the “overall gap in two years that the government has applied to the 'After us' fund as part of the Budget Law”, the secretary of the Democratic Party Maurizio Martina, together with other exponents of the Pd, attacked the current executive in a post published on Facebook. “The umpteenth madness of a government that only damages those who are most fragile” he wrote yesterday afternoon Martina. Evidently forgetting that, actually, “It was the government that cut those funds Gentlemen, of which Martina “He was a minister.”. He explained it last night, in another post, the minister for Family and Disabilities Lorenzo Fontana. E, contacted by ilfattoquotidiano.it, from the Ministry they let it be known "that they have already taken action to provide for the restoration of the bottom and also evaluate the enhancement”. In short, a boomerang for Martina That, Indeed, he was quick to delete the post on Facebook. But the cut remains. “In Lombardy Region – lets know ilfattoquotidiano.it the Pirellone – the cut of 5 million of the funds for the 'After Di Noi' measure arranged by Gentiloni government it will cost more than 850.800 euro, i.e. the 10% of the sum allocated by the allotment".
Ledha's statement – It all started with a statement from the League for the Rights of People with Disabilities published on 12 September. “In recent days – he writes Manfredi – the Unified Conference of the Regions expressed the agreement on the distribution of the resources of the Fund for assistance to people with serious disabilitieswithout family support for the year 2018, required by law 112/2016 (“After us”)”. What changes? It's easy to say: “The fund has been reduced by approx 5 million euros, passing by 56,1 million euros provided for by the legislative decree 112/2016 ai 51,1 million actually made available for 2018". The same cut will be carried out - as a result of the same decision taken in the last Budget law - also for 2019 “thus leading to 10 million euros the overall 'scissors' in two years that the Gentiloni government has applied to the 'After us' fund as part of the Budget Law”. It's the same president Manfredi to add: “It is a signal that goes against the trend with respect to the choice made with the law 112 which supports adult people with disabilities in building an independent life path", but asks anyway government “the total reinstatement of Bottom”.
Minister Fontana: “Funds cut by Gentiloni” – Late in the evening boomerang go back through the words of the Minister of the Family himself Lorenzo Fontana. “The secretary of the Democratic Party Martina attack Salvini saying that our government has cut the fund for the disabled – he writes – In reality it was the government that cut those funds Gentlemen, of which Martina he was a minister. We are trying to increase these funds". But who really cut those funds? What Fontana says can be verified if you consult the text of Budget bill presented by Padoan in October 2017, then approved at the end of December 2017 and containing the cutting of 10 million euros (5 million for the 2018 and the same for the 2019). “With the Budget law approved in December 2017 (Gentiloni government) – he writes Fontana – il Pd has reduced from 56,1 million euros (originally foreseen by the article 3 of the law 112 of the 2016) a 51,1 million euros for the 'Fund for assistance to people with serious disabilities without family support, for two years (2018 e 2019), for a total cut of 10 million euros. It is disconcerting – he adds – that a former minister like Martina does not know what his minister was doing government”. In the meantime Martinadelete his post, but the omelette is done.
The government's intentions and the concerns of the regions– Fontana he wrote clearly that the executive he is part of is trying to increase those funds. How? ilfattoquotidiano.it he asked the ministry that, on point, prefers not to make official statements until they can be communicated engagements precise and concrete measures. From the palace, but, you guarantee that you are working with the aim of restoring those funds and increase the resources available. And if the president of the Ledha Alessandro Manfredi, in his statement, asks the Lombardy Region to commit to the executive to achieve the reinstatement of Bottom, il Pirellone he didn't stand by and watch: “Being one of the first Regions to have activated the interventions, we will pay the consequences of the measure before the others". Because of this, in State Regions Conference, with the other presidents there Lombardy asked to restore the allocation starting from 2019, bringing the bottom back to 56,1 millions. “Above all we hope that the government makes the financing structural and appropriate budget law – explains the Region – in order to ensure the continuity of the projects and services activated”.
