The Ministry of Finance has sent the autonomous communities a report drawn up by its own experts on what should be the adjusted population calculation with a view to an eventual reform of the regional funding system. The way in which the population is calculated is the key to the whole system, as it determines how much money is received. The system does not allocate money according to the number of people living in each region, but rather it adjusts this figure with other variables such as age or geographic dispersion, which is considered to make services more expensive. This fact is detrimental to communities, such as Catalonia, which who population is neither particularly dispersed nor old. That is why the Generalitat has argued for the inclusion of other parameters, such as the cost of living, which introduce a distortion in regional funding.