The policy of life and disability of the civil servants is in force since January 1

This is confirmed by the insurance brokerage, regardless of the date of issue and payment of the annual receipt

The insurance brokerage by which the City Council has contracted the life and disability policy of municipal workers has certified that the same "entered into force on January 1, 2017," regardless of whether the annual receipt has been issued at the end of June and paid in July. In a document issued at the request of the City Council, the brokerage firm has confirmed that all municipal workers are covered by this policy as of January 1, just as they have been in previous years.

The spokesman of the government team, José Ramón González de Zárate, has transferred this information yesterday, after a union slipped the possibility that that policy was canceled on having been paid in July and not on December 31, 2016, being able to leave without coverage to the relatives of three civil servants who died this year.

De Zárate has stressed that this insurance "is in order and has valid from January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2018." "The decision that has been made by the brokerage firm or the company," he explained, "is that instead of issuing the receipt on January 1, it has done so on June 26," a circumstance that "as we have been confirmed, does not influence the validity of the insurance, which has been renewed annually since 2014.

In this regard, he has indicated that, as evidenced by the documentation of the Intervention area, in 2015 the insurance company - Generali - issued the receipt in mid-May and filed for registration in the City Hall at the end of September, the payment was not made until October. Despite this temporary sequence, municipal workers were covered throughout the year. In 2016, the invoice was issued on January 1, while this year was the end of June.

Once the doubts about the validity and validity of the policy have been resolved, "the important thing now is to clarify with the brokerage and the insurer why the families of deceased officials have not collected yet their due, and to solve this situation immediately." A situation, said De Zárate, "that in any case, we deeply regret and that this government did not know until yesterday." In the first steps taken today, "since the brokerage has moved us that they do not know that there are incidents in the files and that these are being processed."

Finally, the spokesman lamented "the uncertainty that has generated in the municipal staff and in their families the inaccurate information transferred by a union, and the absolute irresponsibility of various opposition groups."