- The number of beneficiary households in the Community of Madrid amounts to 59,641, of which 11,666 are single parents
- In more than two-thirds of households with VMI live minors, which are also 41.9% of the beneficiaries
- IMV with child support supplement has reached 40,626 units of coexistence
- Since its inception, the Minimum Vital Income has reached about 1,050.00 households nationwide and benefited more than 3,120,000 people
- “Combating poverty and, especially, child poverty is investing in the country we want to be, and the IMV is a tool that is working to, precisely, help these children to have the opportunities they deserve,” said Elma Saiz.
The Minimum Vital Income (IMV) reached 59,641 households in the Community of Madrid in June, in which 183,397 people live, according to the latest statistics published by the National Institute of Social Security (INSS). The average amount of the benefit is 606.4 euros per month per household, slightly higher than the national average of 522.2 euros and, overall, this month’s payroll in the region has amounted to 40.2 million euros.
In June, there were 9,066 active benefits more than there were a year ago in this same period, which means an increase of 17.8%, the same percentage of year-on-year growth as in the national total with an increase of 111,485 active benefits.
As for the evolution of the beneficiaries, regional photography is also similar to the national one with 29,790 registered beneficiaries more than those counted in June 2024, which means a growth of 19.3%. Meanwhile, the national year-on-year increase stands at 19.7% with 370,277 more registered beneficiaries. Thus, this June a total of 2,253,401 people in 736,867 households throughout the country have been beneficiaries of the IMV.
Regarding the segmentation by sex, both by the profile of the holders and the beneficiaries, we can say that the Minimum Vital Income has a marked female profile. In June, 68.8% of the headlines in the Community of Madrid (41.057) and 67.7% (499.221) in Spain are women, who respectively represent 54.1% and 53.5% of the beneficiaries.
Childhood and IMV
Regarding the age profile, 41.9% (76,978) in the Community of Madrid and 41.3% of the beneficiaries nationwide are children and adolescents, responding to one of the main objectives of the Minimum Vital Income, which is to combat child poverty. “Combating poverty and, especially, child poverty is investing in the country we want to be. The IMV is a tool that is working to help these children to have the opportunities they deserve,” said Elma Saiz.
Thus, in June, in more than two-thirds of the households covered by the IMV, minors coexist, specifically 67.2% in the region of Madrid where, in total, there are 509,806 households with minors, of which 11,666 are single parents, that is, with only one adult (usually female) in charge of minors.
One of the main tools to combat the risk of child poverty is the complement of aid for children, which is part of the Minimum Vital Income. This month, the IMV with this supplement has reached 516,313 units of coexistence nationwide, 40,626 of them in the Community of Madri. This form of IMV involves an aid of 115 euros per household per month in the case of children from 0 to 3 years; 80.5 euros per month for each child between 3 and 6 years; and 57.5 euros per month for each child between 6 and 18 years. The average amount of the supplement in June was 67.4 euros per child and 124.1 euros per household with children.
IMV, a structural performance
Since its inception, the Minimum Vital Income has reached about 1,049,403 households throughout the country and benefited more than 3,120,623 people, of which 1.35 million are children and adolescents, 43.3% of the total.
“The Minimum Vital Income (IMV) has been constituted as a structural benefit of the social protection system in Spain,” says Elma Saiz. “It is a strong, lively and necessary public policy that continues to evolve to address a scourge as severe as poverty.”
Since the entry into force of this policy, Social Security has allocated 15,778 million euros to pay the payroll for this benefit.