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In the Canary Islands there are 4,316 waiting for a non-contributory pension | Radio Club Tenerife

In the Canary Islands there are 4,316 unresolved non-contributory pensions between disability and retirement. In total there are 1,756 in the province of Las Palmas and 2,560 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In the breakdown by islands and municipalities, Tenerife leads the ranking of unsolved benefits with 2202, followed by Gran canaria with 1,457 unresolved pensions, followed by La Palma with 262, Lanzarote with 169, Fuerteventura with 130, La Gomera with 49 and El Hierro with 47 unresolved non-contributory pensions.

In the case of the island of Tenerife, Santa Cruz accumulates the largest number of people waiting for a response from the Government of the Canary Islands about their non-contributory benefit. In the capital of Tenerife there are 341 people waiting for a non-contributory disability pension and 247 for retirement, a total of 588 people waiting. The municipalities of Tenerife with the highest number of people without a response from the Government other than Santa Cruz are La Laguna (394), Arona (156), Los Realejos (124).


Data on unresolved non-contributory pensions in Tenerife / Ardiel Rodríguez

In all the municipalities of the Canary Islands there is someone waiting for their pension to be resolved

There is not a single municipality in the Canary Islands where all the benefits are resolved, There are people waiting for an answer from the Ministry of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands even in the most depopulated municipalities. Even in Betancuria, with less than 700 inhabitants, there are two people waiting for the Government to resolve their non-contributory retirement pension.

They are the official data of the Government of the Canary Islands offered by the General Director of Social Rights and Immigration. In October, a total of 6,659 applications for non-contributory pensions were pending processing, According to data from the Government itself in parliamentary response, some 2,300 non-contributory pensions would have been resolved in five months.

The person in charge of the service where thousands of resolutions remain stuck, blamed the SER for this jam on the lack of personnel and computer resources to resolve them faster. “We have implemented a crash plan assigning twenty people to the service,” Javier Bermúdez explained at the time.However, they will not be fully dedicated to solving non-contributory pensions. “Without administrative muscle it is impossible to manage”, justifies the Government.


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