MUNICIPALITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES
By: Attorney Eduardo Lara Salazar
edularalaw@gmail.com Among the many skills that the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Constitution, 1999) assigned to the municipality, as education and health also included as a concurrent competence, the health services and primary health care, protective services for the elderly.
This corresponds to social policies extended to all citizens in the chapter on Social Rights and the Family. Indeed, the basic text notes that the State shall guarantee senior (elderly) full exercise of their rights and guarantees it seeks as a partner for families and society.
On this point, the legislature approved the Law on Social Services (LSS, 2005) which aims to define and regulate the Benefit System Senior Services and other categories of persons, which is national and whose responsibility legislation as an expression of the guidelines to be followed for treatment. This scheme does not include the allowances that come from it because they are included in Social Security, if not covered by other laws.
means Elderly any natural person aged less than sixty years of age. So-called "other categories of persons" are defined by the LSS and natural persons under sixty years of age, with no ability to pay to list Social Security System, who are in need and are not covered by other laws, institutions and programs.
When CRBV, uses the word state should be understood to encompass the three territorial levels of government: national, state and municipal, each with the roles that established the constitutional or the legislature and, in their cases. Hence the talk of concurrent jurisdiction.
The LSS has the principles that its performance must be intersectoral, decentralized, devolved and participatory, so it requires coordination and cooperation of all public and private agencies to develop programs and services for the population it covers. Its guiding principles are autonomy, participation, responsibility, progressive, preferential treatment, equality, fair treatment, non-discrimination.
Creates the National Institute of Social Services (INASS), which replaces the National Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology (INAGER, 1978), as implementing agency the functions and powers assigned LSS.
The City provides support to the national level regarding the care of the elderly, not only with the implementation of direct services, but also with the donation of immovable property may be suburbs or other municipally owned to operate the sites managed by specialized centers or public bodies. In this sense, the LSS where it chooses, exercise control functions, monitoring and management processes of social services care and assistance for persons under the Act, and acting under the guidelines set by the INASS.
Another form of contribution is in the tax field by total or partial waiver (exemption, exemption) of taxes when they contemplate the Tax Code (2001) and municipal ordinances (local laws), such as tax urban land or vehicles, in the case of shipments of older adults.
also in the urban area, when required adapting spaces to people like the elderly, whose mobility may be reduced or minimal.
In urban transport, when given special treatment payment of the amount of tickets on routes of passengers by the Municipality, by exempting them and facilitating the complaint in case of violation by the carriers.
the case of public entertainment, tourist services, among others, they require preferential rates or free services in some cases.
With the creation of Citizens Advice Bureaux in the municipal government to deal with different requirements.
Despite all the above named, the best tool is the social organization and community through participation, with the deepest love for those beings who gave us life and gave everything before us to grow, so that the elderly and other categories of people can cope with less complexity.
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