translated from Spanish: Senator Pizarro (DC) on veto to Emergency Family Income: “I think it’s a petty attitude from the government”

The Senator for the Coquimbo region, Jorge Pizarro (DC), lamented the Government’s decision to insist on the nature of state aid for more vulnerable families through an emergency income. In this regard, the head of the Finance Committee stated that “we have said that the most vulnerable families, families with an informal income, need timely and effective support, which means greater public investment and also that during the three months this subsidy will be delivered it is even.”
In that vein, the parliamentarian stressed that “no one believes that a family in the first month will eat with 65 thousand pesos, and hence decreasingly. I think the government’s attitude is very bad, a petty attitude, because the veto they are posing implies an increase of $30 million in circumstances that the 2.7 million Chileans living on informal income in their work need support that will allow them to stay at home.”
“The way the government proposes this veto will be forced to force the Chileans in the first month of quarantine to continue to go out to seek the daily livelihood and that puts their health, that of their family and that of the rest of the Chileans at risk. That’s why I don’t think it’s appropriate what the government has done,” he closed.

Original source in Spanish