Albacete.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Tierraseca, has highlighted the support that the Minimum Vital Income represents for the most disadvantaged people, being one of the most consolidated benefits among the wide set of social protection measures that the Government of Spain has promoted in the last two years.
On his visit to the IMV bus, which is today and tomorrow in Albacete, the delegate has been accompanied by the subdelegate in this province, Miguel Juan Espinosa, the vice president of the social area of the Provincial Council, Juan Ramón Amores, and the councilor for Attention to People, Juani García.
Tierraseca, in statements to the media, has stressed that the objective of this service, promoted by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, “is to inform, and help, citizens about the procedures and policies linked to the Minimum Vital Income (IMV), which was born in a pandemic to combat inequality derived from situations of social exclusion” and to propose living policies to favor the social and labor inclusion of the most vulnerable.
The IMV bus began service last October in the Community of Madrid, and so far it has also visited two other provinces of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo and Ciudad Real. In these months, Tierraseca has specified, “1,792 people have been cared for and no prior appointment is necessary” and, of them, most have approached to request information on the IMV, to resolve doubts and, thirdly, to request accompaniment to carry out the procedure of application for the benefit.
Likewise, Tierraseca has commented that there are also potential beneficiaries who had not requested this benefit so far for reasons. The main one is that they thought they were not going to comply due to requirements, followed by those who argued that they did not know the benefit and then those who argued that they had not applied for the IMV because the processing is very complex.
Since the launch of the IMV in 2020, and until the end of 2022, –the delegate has informed - “in Castilla-La Mancha there are already 61,938 people benefiting from this benefit, of which 13,669 are in the province of Albacete and almost half of them are minors”.
Of these 13,669 beneficiaries in the province of Albacete, 7,534 are adults and 6,135 are minors. By sex, 7,411 of the beneficiaries are women and 6,256 are men. In Castilla-La Mancha, of the almost 62,000 beneficiaries, there are 33,954 adults and 27,984 minors. By sex, 33,540 of the beneficiaries are women and 28,394 are men.
In all this time, the Ministry has approved 20,536 applications for this benefit in this Autonomous Community, of which 4,606 correspond to the province of Albacete.
Regarding the profile of the claimants in the case of the province of Albacete, one in five households is made up of a single person (903), followed by 797 households made up of two adults and two minors (17% of the total), Tierraseca also indicated, being the same main position as at the regional level.
“The IMV is not a simple economic benefit, it is included within living policies that are constantly evaluated and, above all, updated,” said the delegate, arguing that, from 2020, the date on which this benefit was created, to the present, “some important elements related to the socio-labor insertion of the beneficiaries have been incorporated.”
The bus is in Albacete this Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 of January, on the Paseo de la Feria (in front of the Caseta de los Jardinillos), from 9 to 14 hours and from 15 to 18 hours. This is the third province of Castilla-La Mancha that visits after those of Toledo and Ciudad Real.