A commission is created to monitor the aid received by 800,000 families, but which lowers the average amount of aid against social exclusion
The Executive wants to know what happens to the minimum vital income (IMV) and has approved a decree to create a monitoring commission, made up of the “three levels” of governments involved: the central, the autonomies and the local entities, as announced by José Luis Escrivá, Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, upon leaving the Council of Ministers. Among the pending initiatives to avoid social exclusion is a digital social card for beneficiaries and the exchange of information between the administrations of applicant data.
The results of the IMV, approved in May 2020, are far from its goals. 799,203 people benefit from this measure, calculates the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services, when the initial commitment was 2.3 million, as Escrivá himself proposed almost two years ago.
Another purpose of the IMV was to open the range to reach 850,000 households at risk of poverty and include families that did not receive any help, something that does not seem to exceed the system of the autonomous communities that already existed and that in 2020 reached 795,861 people. “Only 0.04% is what the minimum vital income would have improved the coverage of the minimum income of the autonomous communities,” indicates the document that examines data from the ministries involved in social rights.
“Only 9% of the population below the poverty line in Spain has benefited from the minimum income”, the average amount of which has also lost two points in two years when compared to the average income per household. It has gone from 17% to 15% in this period, “probably conditioned by the appearance of the minimum vital income”, maintains this organization. In its IMV project, the Government defined people on the threshold of high or extreme poverty as those with incomes of less than 4,300 euros per year. According to the analysis, some 1,000 million euros have been left unmanaged in 2020 out of an annual item of 3,000 million.
The announced commission has the objective of evaluating the regulations on IMV in the communities, where the mechanism works irregularly, together with other types of social insertion income. Prevented by a procedure that must be “simplified” it can go from 60% of vulnerable people who receive aid in the Basque Country and Navarra – who demand the transfer of competences, something that Escrivá’s office is already “analyzing” -, up to “coverage of the 5% in Castilla La Mancha, the Canary Islands and Galicia».
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