The aid to alleviate the electricity bill for those over 65 years already reaches 672 homes and 100 euros

The aid launched by the City Council to alleviate the expense that those over 65 have paid in recent months for electricity consumption has already reached 672 homes in Benidorm. This has been transferred today by the mayor, Toni Pérez after the Local Government Board (JGL) has approved the first remittance of these aids, which have been managed by the Department of Social Welfare headed by Ángela Llorca.

The mayor recalled that "the initially planned aid was at least 50 euros per home that met the requirements, an amount that has finally been increased to 100 euros by having a sufficient remainder." Aid co-financed by the City Council and the Provincial Council of Alicante, through a subsidy granted to Benidorm to mitigate the effects of energy poverty.

Toni Pérez has indicated that this call follows the line set by the City Council of "distributing resources to the segments of the population that need it most". Likewise, he stressed that the City Council has always tried to "be close to citizens and attend to their needs", with support for families "it has been constant, first with the Covid pandemic and then with aid linked to the cost of the light".

At this point, he has detailed that the first of these aids were already given last year -benefiting from it the 1,800 households that had received family aid-, and "now a new effort is being made in the face of what is an unprecedented escalation of the price of energy”.

The people included in the first consignment approved today will receive in the next few days the payment of 100 euros of aid to compensate for the energy costs they have borne from their habitual residence.

These aids were intended for people over 65 years of age, who have been registered in Benidorm for at least the last 5 years without interruption and who are owners or tenants of a home intended for their habitual residence. In addition, the rest of the members of the family unit -up to the third degree of consanguinity- who live in the house must also have reached the age of 65 and be registered in the city for the same period of 5 uninterrupted years.

Once the first aid resolution has been approved, a period of one month is opened to appeal its dismissal.