The “bridge” announced to move from unemployment benefits to minimum subsistence income (IMV), and thus prevent the unemployed from finding themselves without any form of protection, will begin to operate next November, the secretary general of Inclusion explained this Thursday. . Elena Rodriguez. Minister Elma Saiz added that the short information telephone number on IMV 020 will also be available from the same month.
This is a measure announced since the time of Minister José Luis Escriva in 2021, and in which Inclusion has worked throughout this period with the Sepe and the Ministry of Labor, explained Elena Rodríguez. Concretely, it will be available from November 22.
“It is one of the most positive measures that have been taken in recent months,” Rodríguez responded, with the aim of increasing the number of IMV beneficiaries and reducing the so-called non -recourse, people entitled to aid who do not do so. they perceive it.
The announcement took place during the press conference given by the Minister of Inclusion, Elma Saiz, and the Secretary General of Inclusion, on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Saiz highlighted that the IMV reaches 661,640 households in which almost two million people (1,993,559) live, while affirming that it is still possible to continue improving the protection of the state’s minimum income. “We are not satisfied, the IMV is a living policy that we will continue to improve so as not to leave anyone behind,” he said.
This will not be an official recognition
The transfer of unemployment benefit recipients to IMV collection will not be automatic, indicates the Ministry of Inclusion. In other words, there will be no automatic recognition of the minimum living income.
But, thanks to the cross-checking of data carried out during these months between the SEPE and the INSS, the two administrations will communicate to facilitate the collection of the IMV, in the case of people who meet the State minimum income requirements. .
The objective, indicated to the ministry led by Elma Saiz, is that people whose subsidies have been exhausted do not find themselves without any type of income or social coverage.
Elena Rodríguez explained that among people entitled to IMV and who do not request it, 40% receive some income. Among them, “they receive unemployment benefits in most cases,” he added.
“Now is not the time to walk away from this fight.”
Minister Elma Saiz sent a message to the Autonomous Communities, from whom she asked for “co-responsibility” in the face of the reduction of regional minimum incomes against poverty after the establishment of the Minimum Vital Income.
“Twelve of the 17 autonomous communities” have reduced their minimum income, Saiz lamented, in addition to the two autonomous cities they have chosen to reduce them. According to the annual analysis of the Ministry of Social Rights, those which have reduced their budget the most since 2020 are Aragon and Madrid.
“Now is not the time for anyone to walk away from this fight,” Saiz said. A message on which he will insist next Monday, when the IMV Monitoring Commission will be held in Navarre, with the Autonomous Communities and the federation of municipalities.
