SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE/MADRID, Feb. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands was the third autonomous community with the lowest coverage rate of the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) in 2021 with 6.35%, only behind Catalonia (5.36%) and the Balearic Islands (5.37%), according to data from the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services that collects, however, that the difference between the recipients of the IMV and the minimum income is 192%.
In total, in the Canary Islands there have been 38,657 beneficiaries of the IMV, with a budget of 99.7 million, when there are 608,424 people below the poverty line on the islands.
The Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services has denounced the, in its opinion, slow deployment of the minimum vital income (IMV) that receives “only” 35.8 percent of the 2.3 million people initially planned for almost two years after its entry into force and that provides coverage “only” to 9.3% of the population living below the poverty line, due to the complexity and the requirements demanded.
According to the association, in 2021 the Ministry of Inclusion, Migration and Social Security did not execute a third of the IMV budget, which represents 1,000 million euros.
“The bureaucracy and the demanding requirements mean that 3 out of 4 applications are denied, only 366,805 families accessed the IMV, far from the 850,000 promised by the government.”
By autonomous community, the coverage of the minimum vital income continues to be unequal in the national territory. Thus, there are some that have a coverage of less than 6%, such as Catalonia (5.6%) or the Balearic Islands (5.7%) and others that reach a coverage of 24%, as is the case of Navarra, a community that has made the catwalk from its Minimum Income system.
This coverage suffers minor variations than those it suffered with the Minimum Income system: in the Minimum Vital Income, the coverage has a range of 19 points between communities with less coverage that are around 5% and those with the highest coverage that reach 24%. .
However, this increase in beneficiaries compared to the Minimum Income is only 3.59% compared to 2020,
19.89% compared to 2019 and is far from the Government’s forecasts in May 2020 when it expected to reach 2,300,000, it adds in a statement.
Compared with the total of Spain, the beneficiaries of the IMV already reach 3.9% more than that of the beneficiaries of minimum income. The number of recipients of the IMV with respect to those of RRMM is very uneven, says the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services.
Thus, in 11 autonomous communities (Castilla-La Mancha, Andalucía, Canarias, La Rioja, Galicia, Murcia, Castilla y León, Valencia, Madrid, Extremadura and Aragón) there are more recipients than there were with the Minimum Income.
ONE OF EVERY FOUR APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED
Of the total applications (1,532,808, 1,392,092 discounting the canceled or canceled applications) one in four have been approved, which represents 26.35%.
According to the association, it is a “ridiculous” figure that “does not meet the expectations placed on this new subjective right, nor does it meet the needs of the population hit by the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The association recognizes that the modifications of the decree law that regulates the IMV have led to a gradual increase in positive resolutions and if in 2020 the positive resolutions were 15.3%, in 2021 until March they were 27.9% and until September 30 ,4%. “We will have to wait how the few changes introduced in the definitive Law 19/2021, which establishes the IMV, are developed,” they specify.
In his opinion, the Government has fulfilled a third of the objective that was raised that in a few months it would reach 2,300,000 people with the IMV. “Meanwhile, the queues of hunger should embarrass the rulers and, instead of being news, they should be the continuous denunciation of the Government’s incompetence in managing the vaccine against poverty, which is the Minimum Vital Income”, they conclude.
