The Government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has claimed the Minimum Vital Income as “the most ambitious policy” of the “social shield” launched by the Government of Spain to “help citizens who have less to live better”.
Quiñones has pointed this out this Wednesday after visiting the information bus of the Minimum Vital Income of the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, which will be today and this Thursday, 1 and 2 March, in the parking lot of the Sardinero Sport Fields in Santander and will serve citizens from 9 to 14 and from 15 to 18 hours.
The delegate, who has been accompanied by the territorial director of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) in Cantabria, Eva Suárez, has extolled that “with the Minimum Vital Income we have launched a new right of citizenship for those who only have the politics to be able to aspire to live better”.
“A new right, a new social conquest to end inequality, to fight social exclusion and to combat poverty by providing resources and means to those who have the least, with a special impact on the reduction of child poverty,” he added.
As of February 28, 2023, Quiñones has detailed that the Minimum Vital Income benefits almost 16,000 people in Cantabria, specifically 15,748, of which 6,530 are minors, that is to say almost 42% of the beneficiaries, “hence its importance to alleviate situations of child poverty”.
In total, in Cantabria 6,055 files of the Minimum Vital Income have been approved so far, which processes the Social Security and whose workers in Cantabria will provide today and this Thursday service on this bus.
Of the almost 16,000 beneficiaries in Cantabria, 8,768 are women and 6,979 men. In addition, of the approved files, 3,213 have a child support supplement, from 50 to 100 euros per dependent child.
SOCIAL SHIELD
The delegate of the Government has pointed out that “the presence of this bus in Santander is important since citizens will be able to obtain all the necessary information about this service that is part of a wide package of measures promoted by the Government of Spain and that constitute a true social shield”.
“The Government of Spain helps citizens who have less to live better with active policies such as raising the minimum wage or pensions, lowering the VAT on electricity or food, the thermal and electric social bond that benefits about 14,000 people in Cantabria or aid for lower incomes, such as aid of 200 euros for incomes below 27,000 euros and that already accumulates almost 17,000 applications in Cantabria,” he added.
Quiñones has insisted that this is “a package of measures that constitute a true social shield to protect those who need it most, the most vulnerable, and that has been promoted as never before in this country with the aim of leaving no one behind”.