The proposal sent by the executive to the Basque parliament integrates the IMV into the CAV system, extends coverage, improves amounts and “simplifies and accelerates” management to deal with “threats”.
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The blueprint for the future Income guarantee system and inclusion law has been approved by the Basque government, as announced by the Minister of Labor and Employment and Second Deputy Lehendakari, Idoia Mendiaand will soon begin its journey in the Basque Parliament for debate between the political groups.
the new law integrates the Minimum Vital Income into the Basque system, after its transfer to the Basque Autonomous Community; expands the covered cases; it improves the amounts, especially in the cozy units where there are minors, and “simplifies and speeds up” management to a more “agile, modern and clear” model.
As explained by the Executive, this draft draws on three decades of “success” in the benefits system and aims to “hazardsIn the words of Mendia, the law was conceived “in a period of recovery after the financial crisis”, and the draft was drafted “in the midst of all the uncertainties brought about by the pandemic crisis, and we have passed it in government to in the midst of new threats to our social security system.
Extensive coverage and amount
The confidential counselor has explained that the law improves the system for: Ladies, in the case of divorce, —”eliminates a requirement that particularly penalizes them, such as the assertion of economic rights of a private nature, for pension payments in divorce” —, mediation and gender violence, trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation; for the minorsas no cap on the additions is considered and the benefit is maintained even if there are certain non-compliances; for People with Disabilities, as the registration requirement is reduced by 33% of the recognized incapacity for work; for victims of terrorism, which do not need to be previously registered; for retireesand to refugees
This preliminary project foresees that the amounts will be updated every year through the budgets of the CAV, but the basis will be the same as recognized in the IMV. “This decision is intended to give coherence to the integration of this benefit, especially for those who have the right to receive it and, from that country, supplement it with the RGI, currently some 17,000 people,” said mendia.
The amount is improved “in one of the vulnerable situations”in the words of the counselor, up to 40% in minors – “the maximum number of beneficiaries is eliminated, and they all add up in the same proportion” – and up to 17% in retirees.
If it comes into effect this year when the preliminary draft is drawn up, according to the data from the Basque government, the least change would be for a single adult, going from 727 euros to 737.45 euros, and the greatest improvement would be in the case of a unit of two adults and three minors, which would go from EUR 1,033 (unchanged despite the number of minors) to EUR 1,425.72.
The minister explains that despite the fact that in the current situation fewer and fewer people receive an income guarantee income, there are “new amounts and new assumptions” in the law.
The text provides, inter alia, for the establishment of an inspection unit and the establishment of an annual plan to verify compliance with the requirements. Likewise, the law “strengthens” the dialogue between social and inclusion services and ensures that Lanbide will offer beneficiaries at least one job offer or one training activity.
parliamentary process
After explaining that the bill incorporated many allegations into various drafts during a “long” drafting process in which they listened to beneficiaries, institutions, unions and parliamentary groups, counsel has requested a “fast processing” in the Basque Chamber. “We are not asking for accessions or stealing debate. But here are many contributions carried out for several months in the last legislature,” he stated.
Mendia will even ask to allow the month of July so that Parliament can continue to work on its processing and so, “when the summer returns, it will be able to prepare the document” containing the final text of the law which he hopes will be finally approved by Christmas.
The Executive is “focused on having Lanbide prepared to take on this new challenge”. “And it’s time we signaled to citizens from all areas that we are ready to deepen our model of social cohesion,” concludes Mendia.
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