PP, PNV, BNG, Foro Asturias and PDeCAT have voted against, while Vox, Ciudadanos, Junts, Más País and Comprimís have abstained.
The Plenary of the Congress has ended the processing of the Law establishing the Minimum Vital Income (IMV), which has been approved with the votes of the two parties that make up the coalition government (PSOE and Podemos), as well as Esquerra Republicana (ERC) and EH Bildu.
The votes against have come from the PP, PNV, BNG, Foro Asturias and PDeCAT, while Vox, Ciudadanos, Junts, Más País and Comprimís have decided to abstain in this vote.
The groups have changed the direction of their vote after passing through the upper house. The PNV, which in the first phase of processing in Congress voted in favor, and now is against, something that the PP has also done. Similarly, Ciudadanos and Compromís, who were in favor in the first phase of the process, have now decided to abstain.
And it is that, in its passage through the Senate, it has removed of the text the sixth final provision – included in the proceedings in Congress – for the creation of a fund specific to defray the Administration fees that the IMV supposes for the municipalities, with the objective that the corresponding amounts are transferred periodically through the General State Budgets (PGE).
But the biggest change in the content of this rule, with respect to the decree of the Spanish Government approved in June 2020, is the inclusion of a help for son / daughter in charge of between 50 and 100 euros per month for families that benefit from the benefit.
In addition, this benefit will also reach families living in poverty who do not meet the requirements to receive the IMV. Specifically, it will be given to families with up to triple the income that marks the access to the minimum vital income and with a “net worth is less than 150% of the established limits.”
Other novelties included in the text is an improvement in the amount, of 22%, of the Minimum Income for those households that have among their members a person with a great disability, that is, with a recognized disability “equal to or greater than 65%”.
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