Overview
- The regional government ordered the immediate suppression of small weekly cash payments to unaccompanied foreign minors, a move announced on Monday and carried out through an internal instruction at the Instituto Aragonés de Servicios Sociales.
- Regional audits calculated the payments at €17 per minor per week and estimated the total annual cost at about €180,000.
- Vice‑president Alejandro Nolasco of Vox signed the order and officials named in implementing the measure include director general Raúl López and IASS director Marta Tejero, while President Jorge Azcón publicly said the decision belonged to the responsible consejería.
- Reception centres dispute the government’s account, saying the sums were not uniform fixed 'propinas' and arguing the money helped social integration and could be used as behavior incentives in day‑to‑day centre life.
- The step follows other Nolasco initiatives on minors’ centres such as proposals for private security and complaints to the Fiscalía and could shift modest funds toward other services while deepening political tensions over migration management in Aragón.