The Treasury proposes that health and education weigh more in the distribution of regional financing

The Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, has taken this Friday a first step to reform the autonomous financing system by sending the Government’s proposal based on the adjusted population criterion to all the communities of common regime. In this first document to initiate the debate on the new model, the central Executive proposes to raise the weight of the health and educational spending, as well as the depopulation, in the distribution of public resources.

In this text, the Treasury proposes an adjusted population calculation, one of the variables of the financing model that determines the distribution of resources according to demographic, social or territorial circumstances, as the under-financed communities, such as the Valencian Community, Andalusia and Murcia, were requesting.