Through the decision of the department and the Social Security Bank, retirees and pensioners will be able to use the facilities of the Las Cañas spa.
Last week the Social Security Bank (BPS) and the Municipality of Black riversigned an agreement to promote domestic tourism by granting benefits to all retired and pensioners of the Uruguay in the Las Cañas spa.
Through its website, the bank announced that retired and pensioners, as well as officials from the bank, departmental administrations and other organizations, in addition to all those people who have the benefits granted by the BPS Social Tourism program, will be able to access the facilities of the tourist complex. The gray hairin the mayor’s office Black river. The resort has recreation spaces such as a swimming pool, bocce ball and shuffleboard courts.
In that sense, the president of the BPS, Alfredo Cabreraassured that the bank plans to carry out more actions with the mayor of Rio Negro, such as, for example, the implementation of a rental subsidy program with the aim of providing housing to retirees and pensioners immersed in housing problems.
The other benefits of the BPS to retirees
In September, the BPS announced that a pilot plan for rent subsidies for retirees in Uruguay, with the objective of modernizing and making more effective the housing solution of the organization, and reduce the unsatisfied demand of the sector by up to 50% in a shorter period of time.
The president of the BPS, Alfredo Cabrera, He explained in dialogue with Radio Carve that the organization’s board of directors will discuss this new alternative on the current one. Retiree Housing Program that exists in the country, and that will begin to be applied in seven and eight locations until the end of the year. The first objective is to allocate some 100 rental solutions for those retirees who meet the necessary objective conditions and who are currently on the waiting list for the current program.
According to Cabrera, the current Housing Program for retirees – created in 1987 – has several shortcomings that make the initiative – very successful in its beginnings, when the necessary resources for the construction of housing complexes were available – “doomed in the long term.” to become unviable”.
On the one hand, many of the buildings for retirees They were built with another purpose—housing units intended as a “first home” and not as a “last home”—in addition to having remained what they are today. red zones, so people do not want to go or it is not convenient for them to be there. This results in many units being empty.
Furthermore, the current model of retirement buildings goes against the principles of active aging, who propose the integration of people in the environments in which they live.
Source: Ambito
