Toledo.- The Minimum Vital Income (IMV) has reached 22,529 homes in Castilla-La Mancha in February, in which 73,590 people live, according to the statistics published by the National Institute of Social Security (INSS). It is the first time that the number of active IMV benefits is published at a certain time with the aim of providing more detailed information on the evolution of this benefit, which has an average amount in Castilla-La Mancha of 421.30 euros this month.
This new statistic will be published monthly and includes the data of the monthly payroll, the accumulated data, as well as a complete dossier disaggregated by province, which includes disaggregation by types of households, amounts or holders of the benefit, among others.
In cumulative terms since June 2020, when it was launched, the Minimum Vital Income has reached 31,284 households in Castilla-La Mancha and benefited the 99,250 people who were part of them, largely children and adolescents, which represents 45.7% of the total beneficiaries.
Overall, the accumulated payroll of the IMV since its inception is close to 322 million euros, in the autonomous community. In February, the amount was 12.1 million euros.
If we follow the characteristics of the holder of this benefit in Castilla-La Mancha, from the data of February published today it follows that 65.7% are women. In a large proportion, cohabitation units are homes with minors, specifically 74.1% have one or more of their components (16,708). Among them, there are 3,874 single-parent households, 23.1% of the number of families with minors.
As for the profile of the group of beneficiaries in February, which includes both the holders and the rest of the members of their family unit, in Castilla-La Mancha 53% are women.
Comprehensive Plan for Minimum Vital Income Accessibility
The publication of the new statistics responds to the Comprehensive Plan of Accessibility to the IMV that the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, announced on Monday during the event “IMV: a more lively policy than ever”.
One of the three pillars of the plan is based on transparency, in addition to streamlining processes – which will ensure interoperability between administrations of documents that are already in their possession or have been prepared by them, for example – and a proximity and accessibility that includes from a review of the website and the application forms for the provision, to the implementation of a short number for the IMV for the summer that will bring with it a 40% increase in the INSS workforce.
“We want to remove barriers and move closer to households at risk of exclusion,” said Minister Elma Saiz. “We have unveiled new proposals and measures that improve access to the service and I am committed to redoubling efforts to reach where we are not reaching,” he added.