The Minimum Basic Income only reaches 8.3% of the Canarian population below the poverty line, that is, 28,227 families. This is according to the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services in a study on IMV coverage released this Monday. In contrast, in other autonomous communities such as the Basque Country, Ceuta and Melilla it reaches more than 22%. In Castilla La Mancha, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands it does not reach 10%.
In the aforementioned report, the entity recalls that this aid includes both the basic subsistence income, for families with incomes below the guaranteed income, and the child support supplement, which allows to complete incomes less than three times the guaranteed income.
According to this association, at the national level the families that receive the basic subsistence income for having incomes lower than what is considered "guaranteed income" are only 392,902 households (1,006,763 people), 2.1% of the Spanish population.
In addition, it emphasizes that when the IMV was implemented, the initial forecast was to reach 850,000 people who are in a situation of severe poverty (17% of the Spanish population, 2.3 million people) and, four years later, "the reality is that only 46.2% of severe poverty coverage has been reached".
As there are currently 8,260,000 people at risk of poverty, being below 60% of the median income, the IMV "only reaches 12.2%" of this group, says in a statement the association chaired by Jos
Social services managers believe that it is necessary to give "an even greater boost to incorporate the IMV in the management of primary care social services", since "community social services are a capillary network that reaches all citizens, regardless of the municipality in which they reside and their personal and social situation".
Therefore, they regret that the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security "has not established any coordination that, without any doubt, would have helped the implementation of the IMV, improving the deadlines for access and the economic situation of many families".
The Government has not met the objective that it set itself that in a few months the IMV would reach the 850,000 families that live in extreme poverty in our country. Meanwhile, the persistence of the "hunger queues" should embarrass the rulers and, instead of being news, should be the continuous denunciation of the Government's ineptitude in the management of the "vaccine against poverty", which is how they described the Minimum Basic Income.