3,776 families in Malaga live on €476 per month, which is less than €16 per day. Most of these families have four or more members, meaning that some 15,000 people are living in severe poverty. These are just the families which go to the city hall for help, although other cases remain undetected, according to the Malaga Councillor for Social Affairs, Marivi Romero.
This year alone, the budget Malaga City Hall has to help local families in need has tripled, and the number of requests for help has risen by 140 per cent since last year.
In a third of the cases this year, it was the first time the families had asked for help to cover basic necessities such as food, water, electricity, housing and mortgages.
So far this year, Social Welfare has handed out more than €1.8m in economic assistance, 35 per cent more than just two years ago.
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