Social Security has suspended in a precautionary way the minimum vital income (IMV), state aid for people in poverty, families due to delays and management problems. That is, for reasons attributable to the administration and not to homes in vulnerability. In January, the aid “massively” to households in “all autonomous communities” was not paid, they warn of citizen social and collective workers, who demand that the suspensions be lifted in a “immediate” way. Social security has not responded to Eldiario.es on the number of households affected by paralyzes.
The suspensions of the minimum vital income are justified because the annual review of the Social Services certificates that prove the situation of social vulnerability of some families have not been carried out, which Social Security asked the municipalities with the delivery limit of December 31 . According to the latest data from the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security, in January 2025, homes that have perceived the IMV have been 671,849.
Sources from the Social Security Ministry remember that social services have to communicate annually at INSS the maintenance or modification of certificates issued to IMV beneficiaries, as required by law.
“When they have proceeded in 2024 to review the certificates, the beneficiaries who needed to update it have been referred to and have not yet informing them that their benefit has been suspended until they present it, at which time they will receive the amount of the months elapsed since the suspension, ”they respond in Social Security.
However, the RMI collective your right has distributed a Social Security response on Monday to a Social Services Department of the Community of Madrid that complained about the situation, in which precautionary suspensions of the aid are recognized although, “in Some cases, the renewal of the CSS (Social Services certificates) would have been presented. ”
In this email, the paralyzes of the provision are justified by “the growing volume of files to control”, “together with the small time space that we have to update the information referred to by the different social services and the coincidence of certain technical problems ”
Certificates delivered and cuts to aid
Social Services workers insist that the municipalities sent the certificates “in the deadline” and “with a lot of effort.” “The responsibility is not in the workers not to make the reports,” says Emiliana Vicente, president of the General Council of Social Work. From this body they have consulted the professional associations throughout the country about these suspensions and explain that the situation is “generalized”, with cases “in all autonomous communities,” laments Vicente.
Specifically, Eldiario.es have arrived warnings of social services personnel in the Community of Madrid, who denounce that IMV suspensions are “massive.” “They are paralyzing many files. In Andalusia it happens exactly the same as in Madrid. It is a pity because after being the person waiting for so long for them to solve it, they ask community services for the report, we send it to them, but they paralyze it, ”they indicate on the other hand in the Andalusian Social Work Council.
Social groups such as RMI your right and ATD fourth world, who collaborate with people beneficiaries of the IMV and other minimum income, blame social security and “traffic jam” to assess social vulnerability certificates.
Thus, they indicate several cases in which users have received the Social Security Chart Your delivery in December.
“As a consequence of this deficit management of the INSS The precautionary suspensions.
“If they have not been able to review all the files in December, it is the problem of the administration, but what they cannot be to suspend the IMV to the families,” says Hontanares Arranz, ATD fourth world activist.
In the General Council of Social Work they share their indignation for the precautionary cuts in the face of revisions that are not attributable to citizens. “It is an outrage to the dignity of people. It is infamous. How can an economic amount be suspended to guarantee your basic needs, a minimum of income in day to day? We are talking about people who need this money to eat, ”laments Emiliana Vicente, the president of the agency.
Vanesa, affected: “This kills us”
Vanesa is a beneficiary of the minimum vital income in the Community of Madrid, in charge of two children in their home, to which in January the Social Security cut the help in a precautionary way due to the alleged lack of delivery of this certificate of vulnerability. “I had made that report with social services on December 13, so I told them it could not be. I have the proof, where they recorded that they sent it on December 17 to Social Security, ”explains the woman to eldiario.es.
“It is his mistake, not ours. They have an administrative chaos and we kill us, ”says Vanesa. He went to a Social Security Office to try to solve the situation. “I had no appointment, but I was because I had to try to demonstrate the situation as soon as possible. There were many people like me, the tail was quite large, there were people who were left without attending for the next day, ”he says.
Vanesa explains that the Social Security official, “very nice”, explained that “they were up” and that once the social services certificates were reviewed, the benefit would be re -entered, with retroactive effect. “I asked him if in February he would be resolved, but he told me that he couldn’t know,” laments the affected.
In January he did not charge the aid and closed the expenses of the month as he could, “thanks to the fact that he had worked in December in a Christmas campaign.” But since then he is “in a sinvivir,” he says, because he no longer has money to pay for rent, supplies (light and water) and the food of this month.
“I have to choose,” he says, knowing that there is no possible choice. “I can’t not pay the rent,” he reviews out loud, but neither do her children and she stop eating. “I am looking for work as a desperate one, but nothing comes out. I have a little girl and I can’t take any schedule, I have to take care of her, ”he explains.
“You see yourself thinking about who you can ask for the money, trusted people and who can leave you … although it is not the solution because you have to return it in the following months and you do not arrive,” he says. “You look trapped everywhere. And the worst is the fault and shame you feel when you see yourself, because society punishes you, it is as if we wanted to live like this, ”he says.
From the General Council of Social Work they denounce this example as another sample of the problems of social security management with the minimum vital income “from the beginning.” “Again, beneficiaries are submitted to a stress scenario, overwhelming and pain, when we remember that they are already families with an unfavorable context,” says Emiliana Vicente, who claims that the cuts be lifted in social protection “immediately.” “If you are checking and verifying the IMV, great, but keep them in my mind and, at the end, solve what they have to solve, not the other way around.”
Source: www.eldiario.es
