In 2022, only 4% of women with children in the Community of Madrid will benefit from the reproductive assistance implemented by Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s team. As explained this Wednesday by the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Local Administration and spokesperson for the regional Government, Miguel Ángel García Martín, last year “more than 13,000 women from the Community of Madrid” received help when that in the region at the time They produced 329,812 children, according to the National Institute of Statistics. Therefore, these aids reached only 3.9% of women who became mothers in Madrid last year.
The ‘trap’ of lowering personal income tax to lower entitlement taxes
This Wednesday, the Executive of the region announced its intention to renew the plan to promote the “birth and motherhood” of the region, already promised by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in 2022 in her investiture speech at the Madrid Assembly. Then he explained that the aid for pregnant women will be given to women under 30 years old who will receive up to 14,500 euros: 500 euros per month from the fifth month of pregnancy until the child turns two years old.
The requirements to access this assistance must be registered for at least ten years with an income of 30,000 euros. A year ago, the president of the region corrected and shortened the registration years to five in the face of criticism received because this ten-year requirement excluded thousands of women living in the region.
This Wednesday, the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Local Administration and spokesperson for the regional Government, Miguel Ángel García Martín, announced again in the press conference after the Council of Government the continuation of this plan to improve the number of births , maintaining the same Requirements: under 30 years old, register in the region for at least five years and have an annual income of 30,000 euros as a maximum.
As he emphasized, “all mothers under the age of 30 will receive 500 euros per child from the 21st week of pregnancy until the child is two years old, which means that in general each mother will receive a total which is 14,500 euros per child. 29 months”, with “a new investment of more than 114 million euros for maternity assistance and the promotion of the birth rate for children born in 2024”, a plan that will last until 2026.
In addition, on January 1, 2024, the Community of Madrid will provide “an income of 1,800 euros per child for multiple births and adoptions, so that each family will receive 3,600 euros in the case of the birth or adoption of two children, and 5,400 in the case of 3 etc.” García Martín emphasized that with this help the regional government “continues to expand and develop the strategy of the birth rate of the Community of Madrid with 80 measures and a budget which is more than 4.8 billion euros.”
Personal income tax deflation
On the other hand, the Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment, Rocío Albert, reported in the same press conference that the regional government returned for the second consecutive year to deflate the personal income tax “with the aim of this new tax cut will help families. in the face of rising inflation and did not find themselves in time to make the next declaration “in a tax bracket higher than to which they are entitled.” The move, he said, will save 3.5 million Madrid taxpayers 153 million euros.
This step is a commitment that Ayuso included in the electoral program of the PP in Madrid “from which taxpayers will continue to benefit as long as inflation is above 2%,” recalled the Minister of Economy and Finance. The percentage at which the deflation will be conducted will be 3.1%, which corresponds to the average increase in the CPI in the first eight months of this year 2023, he said further.
