Cirer visited the facilities of the Manacor disability assessment centre, where 1,179 decisions have been processed so far this year.
The Regional Ministry of Families and Social Affairs has resolved 8,198 between January and July 2024, which is 200% more than the same period in 2023, when 2,717 were resolved. This was confirmed by the councillor for Families and Social Affairs, Catalina Cirer, during her visit to the Manacor disability assessment centre where, during the first seven months of the year, 1,179 resolutions have been resolved compared to the 610 that were carried out in the same period of the previous year.
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The Regional Ministry of Families and Social Affairs has resolved 8,198 degrees of disability
During her visit to the Manacor centre, Councillor Cirer highlighted the good results obtained by reorganising the work of the Manacor and Inca offices by moving complete assessment teams to both centres during the summer months. This new way of working has meant that all the assessments made during this period, whether in the Inca, Manacor or Palma centres, can be resolved in a single visit, avoiding unnecessary trips for the people concerned, as each assessment involves an interview with a health professional, a psychologist and a social worker.
About the Inca centre, it should be noted that the data on the number of disability assessment decisions in Inca has also been notably more favourable than in the previous year, going from 529 decisions in 2023 to 907 in 2024, between January and July.
Waiting list for disability assessment
Although the waiting list for the assessment of people with disabilities continues to be high, 14,485 people as of June 2024, also caused by the increase in new applications for assessment detected in recent months, the Regional Ministry of Families and Social Affairs is carrying out exhaustive work to reduce both the number of people waiting and the average time, currently calculated at around 16 months.
Faced with the situation of waiting lists for disability assessment, the Regional Ministry of Families and Social Affairs has already announced the implementation of an ambitious shock plan to make these lists a reality. Among the measures already adopted are the reactivation of an existing agreement with the Balearic Islands health service (IBSALUT), through which public health professionals can combine their work with the assessment of people with disabilities; the introduction of a new system of equivalences through which users aged 80 or over with a degree of dependency I am entitled to a 33% degree of disability and mobility of 25%. Users aged 75 or over with a degree of dependency II have a 65% degree of disability and 25% mobility, and users aged 65 or over with a permanent degree of dependency III have a 75% degree of disability and 25% mobility.
Likewise, minors go directly for assessment to the early care assessment service to avoid this vulnerable sector having to wait, a fact that made it difficult for them to access school support resources, among others.
Another of the measures promoted is the increase in overtime for professional assessors.
Other equivalence systems are currently under study to lighten the waiting list and facilitate access to services and benefits for all those dependent persons who need them.