Bill proposes faster aid and priority care for ALS patients

Automatic summary, not yet reviewed

1. The bill would recognize as persons with a disability, at a 33 percent level, anyone diagnosed with ALS, from the moment the diagnosis is communicated and regardless of how far the disease has progressed.
2. People with severe dependency and ALS would receive priority care in services with specialized technical and human resources.
3. The bill would expand personal income taxincome tax The personal income tax (IRPF in Spain): what people pay on what they earn from work, business or savings. (IRPFIRPF Spanish personal income tax, the tax paid on income.) deductions for home adaptation works: for people with ALS, the maximum base would rise to €24,040 per year and the deduction rate to 26.8 percent.
4. It would strengthen patients' right to leave advance instructions about their health care and treatment, valid throughout Spain and revocable at any time.
5. The recognition of dependency status for people with ALS would be priority and must be decided within a maximum of three months. Their individual care program would be reviewed within two months at the person's request and every three months on the administration's own initiative.
6. The Government would have to include in the national health system's service portfolio transportation and lodging for treatment at reference centers, plus technical aids for communication, and guarantee home physiotherapy and 24-hour home care for people with ALS with severe dependency. It could also extend these rights to other chronic, neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases.

Who it affects

• People diagnosed with ALS: Faster access to disability status, dependency benefits and public aid.
• Family members and caregivers of people with ALS: Covered transportation and lodging to accompany treatment away from home, and specific training for professional caregivers.
• People with ALS who adapt their main home: Expanded income tax deduction, with a higher limit and rate than the general one.
• Patients in general: Stronger advance instructions about their medical treatment.

Words worth knowing

IRPF

Spanish personal income tax, the tax paid on income.

Situación de dependencia (dependency status)

Official recognition that a person needs help from others for daily life, which gives access to public benefits.

Instrucciones previas (advance instructions)

A document in which a person states in advance what treatments and care they want if they ever cannot express it themselves.

CSUR

Centros, Servicios y Unidades de Referencia: specialized centers of the Spanish national health system that treat patients referred from anywhere in Spain.

Proposición de ley (bill)

A text by which a parliamentary group proposes a law. It is not a law until approved by the Congress and the Senate.

income tax

The personal income tax (IRPF in Spain): what people pay on what they earn from work, business or savings.

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