translated from Spanish: Mothers of people with disabilities receive first support

Kevin suffers from cerebral palsy and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, which causes seizures. At the age of nine, she has to use external oxygen to breathe and is fed by a tube, so she is totally dependent on her mother, Ana Luisa Lugo. The expenses to treat it are about 5 thousand pesos per month, but now for the first time since birth they received financial support from the federal government, through the new social program Pension for People with Permanent Disabilities.
The distribution of cards and payments has had delays in the first months since its creation, so Ana received in a single deposit of the corresponding two bimestres, 2 thousand 550 pesos each, that is, that were added 5 thousand 100 pesos that could be collected the first seman July, even though he had the bank card since May.
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“With his expenses there is no money to reach me; this was like extra good. When he arrived, I went and bought diapers, bought medicine, i bought equipment, because he eats by probe and needs probes, syringes, food bags, gauze. And with all that, I went and filled out his medicine cabinet,” Kevin’s mother says in an interview.
As reported by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on July 1, there are already 610,000 people with disabilities who benefited from this program, focused on children and young people from zero to 29 years of age.
Ana Luisa works cutting hair in her own home, in Chicoloapan, State of Mexico, because to care for Kevin she could not have a regular job. But that means he has no social security, more than with Popular Insurance, which doesn’t cover all the care and medications the child usually needs.
The only government support they had ever had was from pantries delivered by the local government with the “The Effective” card, which was distributed in Governor Eruviel Avila’s six-year ennium, but which was irregular and when he changed administrations was over. That’s why now, Ana keeps her reserves until she really sees the support, and took the opportunity to buy everything she needed.
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How to access this pension?
The Permanent Disability Pension is one of the priority programs created by the new government. Since López Obrador won the election, teams from the so-called “nation’s servers” began touring homes looking for potential beneficiaries, and so far it is the only way to register.
At the offices of the Ministry of Welfare of Mexico City, Political Animal who only give information or take people’s data for a server to visit.
Hortensia Carmona, also a resident of the State of Mexico, but in Coacalco, learned about the program when her two eldest sons were born in February for Benito Juárez higher middle school scholarships. There they commented that the youngest, Alan Daniel, 13, was born with hydrocephalus, does not speak or walk.
When they were censar, in addition to birth certificate and proof of address, an official certificate of disability is requested for the program. For Dany, it was enough to present the medical note with his history that he was given at the last hospitalization he had at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).
A month after the visit, they got the card from the Banorte bank. Although for the first few months, he marked as “invalid,” Hortensia even spoke to bank staff who told him they couldn’t know anything about the payments because it was just an electronic wallet. Until his other children received his high school scholarships in June, he went to check Dani’s card again and then had also received the 5,100 accumulated pesos of two bimestres.
“Well, it’s going to help me because I’m a single mother in the first place, your dad gives you the IMSS, but she doesn’t live with us, and sometimes you don’t have the meds, when there’s a deabas. He eats porridge, and he uses a box of diapers a week. It’s a lot of spending on it, but something’s going to help us.”
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Original source in Spanish