• Guide. Minimum Life Income: how to apply for the aid, what are the requirements and all the keys

Following the approval of the Minimum Vital Income , the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration has activated an online simulator in which citizens can check if they meet the requirements to access aid, as well as calculate the approximate amount of it. .

The application, available on the Ministry's website and which can be accessed directly at this link, has a questionnaire with questions regarding the conditions established to access the Minimum Vital Income or Minimum Income , among others, if you have resided in a legal and uninterrupted in Spain in the last 12 months; if other pensions or benefits to which you may be entitled have been requested; if any member of the family unit is unemployed; or if they have minors in charge.

Once the questionnaire is completed and according to the data provided, you will be able to know if you meet the conditions to receive the minimum income . The Ministry clarifies that it is only a simulator to know if you have the right to receive the benefit; if so, citizens will have to request their processing from June 15 through the electronic headquarters of Social Security .

The minimum vital income or minimum vital income is a basic income approved by the Government and directed to households in a situation of "severe poverty". In Spain there are 1.1 million households with all their members unemployed, and almost 600,000 who do not have any type of income, according to the Labor Force Survey.

The requirements to apply for the Minimum Vital Income are several. In any case, the aid is for a family, not for people, so it will only be one of the adult members of the coexistence unit who requests it even if the income of several is taken into account.

The minimum vital income support ranges from 462 to 1,015 euros per household, an amount that depends on whether you have elderly people or dependent children, and on the income declared in 2019.

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