The Social Security of the Canary Islands manages to upgrade after the mess of the queues

This reclassification, published in the Official State Gazette, It will mean more resources and more staff for the offices of the islands, according to the representative of the workers for UGT in the Social Security, Gustavo Martín.

As he points out, the upgrade is something that has been achieved after many demands. “It is an achievement for the Canary Islands and the organization’s employees, although there are still many steps to be taken,” says Martín. It has been a year since the UGT and CCOO unions requested in the executive commission reclassification based on the number of affiliates that there is in the islands and the high demand of the citizens. It should be noted that Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife were the only provinces with more than one million inhabitants without the B2 category, now achieved.

In the recent visit of the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, José Luis Escrivá, he warned that work was underway to improve the service but did not give a specific date. The proximity of the elections and the media noise have finally forced the reclassification due to the fear of losing votes.

As indicated in the BOE, since 1983 the reclassification of the INSS provincial addresses had not been reviewed but the “important changes” that have been taking place in the attention to citizens have highlighted the rise in category in the Canary Islands. «It is worth noting another series of factors, such as the insularity itself, which makes it necessary to keep the offices open in the different non-capital islands regardless of the volume of management and population served and the difficulty of stabilizing the workforce because they are work centers with a lot of mobility of personnel”, it is indicated.

In B1 there are only Madrid and Barcelona.