The Basque Autonomous Community and Navarra had a coverage of 61.8% and 59.6%, respectively. They are the autonomous communities with the greatest protection.
Around 60% of the inhabitants on the poverty line of Hego Euskal Herria received a minimum insertion income (RMI) in 2020. The Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) and Navarra had a coverage of 61.8% and 59.6% respectively. Some data that suppose the two higher percentages out of all the autonomous communities, according to the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services.
A report by the organization denounces that in the Spanish State only the 9% of the population living on the poverty line (795,861 people) receives some RMI. A percentage that hides considerable territorial differences, starting from 61.8% of the CAV to 1.7% of Castilla-La Mancha.
The RMI represents 15.3% of the average income per household, an amount “extremely low“which has dropped two points (17.1%) since 2019. The association assures that in 2020 seven autonomous communities reduced the budget and the number of beneficiaries of the RMI” with the alibi of minimum vital income“, approved in the middle of that same year. These are Madrid, Aragon, the Balearic Islands, Galicia, Castilla y León, Castilla la Mancha and La Rioja.
At the end of 2020, Asturias was behind the CAV and Navarra with a coverage of 19.2%, followed by Cantabria (16.8%), Catalonia (12.3%), Aragón (10.9%) and Balearic Islands (10.2%). Behind were Madrid (8.4%), Castilla y León (8.3%), Extremadura (7.6%), Valencian Community (6.9%), La Rioja (6.7%), Murcia (6 .4%) and Andalusia (5.3%). At the bottom, Galicia (4.6%), the Canary Islands (3.3%) and Castilla-La Mancha (1.7%).
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