The Delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, visited today Information and advice bus on Minimum Vital Income (IMV) which during yesterday and today is located in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de València.
This initiative promoted by the Government of Spain through the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, aims to publicise and process the applications of IMV citizens through the advice on the provision (configuration, purpose, means of request, consultation of the file and collection of solitudes). This is, said the delegate “of one innovative initiative to extend the scope of the IMV and ensure that all situations of poverty and exclusion are addressed”
According to the data provided by Barnabas, 64,797 households where a total of 185,419 people in the Valencian Community receive the IMV now. Of them, 73,140 people in the province of Alicante, 22,343 in the province of Castellón and 89,936 in the province of Valencia. In addition, of the total number of people receiving the benefit, 100,756 are women and the rest are men. The benefit, which pays for Social Security, “is having Special impact on the reduction of child poverty –said Bernabé– since it has benefited 80,633 minors in the Comunitat Valenciana”
The delegate has also announced that for speed up care for citizens, the National Institute of Social Security He has put in place a plan to clash with the Reinforcement of the staff of the 38 offices of attention to the citizen (17 centers in Valencia, 8 in Castellón and 13 in Alicante) “to inform and advise the citizens in person of all the procedures related to Social Security, including the Minimum Vital Income”.
A state level, the IMV has reached a 560,809 households In those who live 1,579,949 people, of whom 42.8% are minors. In addition, in two out of three households, the IMV holder is a woman.
El informative bus the IMV that was launched last October plans to visit 40 localities of our country, and to date it has served about 2,600 people.