Direct assistance to people affected by DANA They will not have to be returned in three months. The government clearly indicated that this was a “hoax”, assuring that “the direct aid announced by the government in Royal Decree-Law 6/2024 must not be returned” because “they are not loans”.
Furthermore, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Carlos Body, announced that during the next Council of Ministers, he would specify more help for people affected by DANA, who can be returned “in five or seven years”.
This is what the Corps conveyed in an interview with “Espejo Público”, where it indicated that the government ““It’s not going to stop at an immediate response.” and those affected by DANA “will have all the help they need available to them for as long as they need it.”
“We are going to put aid on the table which can be returned in five or seven years”, he explained, which “will be finalized next Monday at the next Council of Ministers”.
In this sense, he asked that there be no element “disinformation”, since “households will be able to access this aid and even these advances”, even if “they must have them on the table in advance”.
“Be calm because the money will arrive”he assured, stressing that, for example, direct aid to self-employed workers and entrepreneurs “could begin to be collected through the Tax Agency at the beginning of December”.
In this way, he defended that access to credit under conditions will be made accessible to those affected “as advantageous as we can say.
The Insurance Consortium received 136,000 claims
For the moment, the Insurance Compensation Consortium (CCS) has received until this Friday 136,000 claims from DANA, including 80,000 relating to vehicles and 40,000 to homes, as the minister explained.
A moment which he took advantage of to emphasize that the Consortium, responsible for compensation to policyholders in the event of extraordinary risks, “it’s starting to pay off now” because the objective is to reach the people concerned as quickly as possible.
In the same sense, the minister stressed that households and businesses can request advance payment of aid through financial entities and that it will be deployed. a credit access programs on advantageous conditions which have not been detailed.
“We will continue to support all those affected, not only during these first weeks, but throughout the process of rebuilding and relaunching their businesses,” he insisted, “the State will be alongside affected people throughout the process. as long as we can and in the quantities necessary.”
Corps separated the aid program from the possible approval of the general state budgets for 2025 and stressed that, although the first phase is articulated by royal decree-law, the support that will be necessary for several years “it will have to be implemented” and, for this, “the great tool is the Budgets”.
