The Government will approve aid for the accident on Tuesday and will receive a report from Puente

The Council of Ministers plans to approve next Tuesday a royal decree with aid for those affected by the train accident in Urda (Toledo) and will receive a report from the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, on what happened.

The forecast, as Government sources have informed EFE, is that Puente himself will appear at a press conference on Tuesday at the Moncloa Palace, after the Council meeting, to report on this report and the aid for the victims of the accident.

A press conference that he will hold hours before appearing before the Permanent Deputation of Congress to also report the data available about the accident.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, already announced last Thursday, in a statement in Toledo, that the General Administration of the State, in addition to responding to the emergency and focusing on clarifying what happened, would allocate aid to those affected.

As in the case of other catastrophes, this aid will be included in a royal decree that the Government plans to approve on Tuesday.

At that Council meeting, the first after the train accident, Puente will present a report on what happened and which will foreseeably include details of the explanations he gave at a press conference last Friday at the Ministry of Transport.

Puente once again ruled out that he would resign and announced that he is preparing a battery of measures to minimize the possibility of technical failures and "regain the confidence" of the Spanish people in the railway system.

A trust that Sánchez himself admitted on Friday is "broken" after this accident and the one in Adamuz (Córdoba) on January 18.

Nine days after the Adamuz accident, the Council of Ministers approved a royal decree that established compensation of just over 210,000 euros per deceased as part of a set of immediate aid and advances to the victims.

At that time, Puente explained that this decision was adopted because ordinary procedures and judicial times do not always respond to the vital urgency of a tragedy, and that victims cannot wait to receive financial support.

Of the amount allocated then for the relatives of each deceased, 72,000 euros corresponded to non-refundable compensation, another 72,000 euros as an advance payment for civil liability insurance and a further 72,000 euros as a result of compulsory insurance.

In the case of compensation for bodily injuries, the aid was determined according to the existing scale, and ranged from 2,400 euros in minor cases to more than 84,000 in more serious cases.

All amounts that Puente then explained would be paid in a single payment and would be exempt from taxation.