The resident commissioner, Jenniffer González Colón, details the whereabouts of a move to the President of the United States, Joseph Biden, his most immediate priorities for the Island are his communiqué to the new president at his disposal to work bipartisanly for the benefit puertorriqueños.
“As the only representative of the 3.2 million poor people living in Puerto Rico, we would like to have some attention from those who need to wait in an urgent manner,” he said today, Domingo, the Resident Commission in a written communication.
Include in the Isla as part of the efforts to train the manufacture of medical equipment in South America, make the transition from Puerto Rico to the Nutritional Supplementary Assistance Program (SNAP, through its sailings in English), as well as the application in the Isla del Kinderbelastingkrediet (CTC), search the avualad bajo the Medicaid program and provide the status to the poor people are some of the detailed priorities in the map.
Help by COVID-19
González Colón results in the capacity of Puerto Rico, as well as its human capital, infrastructure and experience, to contribute to the rapid production of medical and pharmaceutical equipment to counter the pandemic caused by the COVID and trace of Unel to Eelta.
In addition to COVID’s economic aid projects, it includes incentives for manufacturing companies to increase the production of these equipments, while incentivizing the local economy.
At his inauguration, President Biden solicited at the Congress the approval of $ 350 trillion in additional assistance for state and local governors. In reference to this, the Commission agrees that the territories and Puerto Rico are included.
The card expresses its support for President Biden’s proposal to separate 1,000 million dollars in additional funds for the Nutrition Programs of Iceland, American Samoa and the Mariana Islands of the North. These are the three territories currently participating in SNAP.
Likewise, express support for the delimited plan by the President to facilitate the Transition of the Island to the SNAP program, an initiative that the Commission has supported and presented legislation and will be impulsively new in this Congress.
Economic development
However, the Biden plan includes expanding the credit crunch per minor and increasing it to $ 3,000 per year and $ 3,500 per 6-year-olds dependents, in Puerto Rico this benefit is only applicable to families with less than two minorities.
The Commission’s exhortation to the President that the island is a treaty equal to that of the States and the District of Columbia and that it is credited to families of one or two dependent dependents.
In the second quarter, the commission presented HR 106, Contributing Credits by Dependents (CTC), acknowledging that families with one or two dependents could be declared in their tax return. The CTC in Puerto Rico benefits 355,000 large families and 404,000 children.
Health
González Colón also subscribes to a permanent solution to the funding of the Puerto Rico Medicad program and, as a result, seeks to reduce the need for treatment and to address health needs in the Isla.
“By the end of this fiscal year, federal funding for the Medicaid program will reach $ 350 million per year, for a program that costs $ 3 trillion a year.
Additionally, the federal support for Medicaid (FMAP) services in English will increase from 76 per cent to the amount applicable to the 55-year-old territories, which is very low by 83 per cent from the FMAP-half to Puerto Rico. if it is the application of the formula that is used for the States and the District of Colombia ”, the commission said in its map.
Estadidad
González Colón culminates in a card indicating to the president that the treaty discriminatory that Puerto Rico receives is that federal programs are subject to territorial status
“On the day of his election, the people of Puerto Rico reaffirmed their desire to attract the full support of the United Nations as a state of the Union, with the rights and freedoms that it brings. On the day of his adjudication, members of our National Guard, who have no right to vote by his Commander in Jefe, defend the capital city. We agree with his compromise and that of his Administration in order to make justice and resolve the status of the Island according to the mandate of the people ”, concluded the Commission on its map.