The Government designs the new minimum vital income for the benefit of three million people in a million households and hopes that for the beneficiaries who are of working age it will not be a brake to seek employment.

It is the concept explained in the Cadena Ser chain by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá. He has not confirmed that it will be ready in May as the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez and the Second Vice President, Pablo Iglesias, have agreed, but he has assured that he is working "on the march" to take him "in weeks" to the Council of Ministers

"There is agreement in the government that this is urgent," he assured, denying feeling pressured to accelerate the work that he had planned for later, at least months. But it has been categorical that what leads to the Council of Ministers will be the permanent minimum income and not the conjunctural express for the crisis that Iglesias raised. "It does not make sense that it is a bridge measure, because we would have to do exactly the same preparatory work," he stressed.

On the delay, Escrivá has insisted on what he said the day before in the Congress of Deputies and is his fear that the design will not benefit those who really need it for not being detected in the system. "We have to really be able to reach them. That has to be done well."

Escrivá trusts that this vital income, of which he has refused to advance figures and that would be complementary to that which already exists in autonomous communities, is not a brake for beneficiaries to seek employment.

What is approved will be permanent income. A figure would not be wise. "It is essential that an income of these characteristics have itineraries of inclusion in the labor market," he said. It will be a Social Security benefit that will have a "significant" cost, which has not been detailed.

Regarding the announcement made yesterday by the Ministry of Pablo Iglesias that there would be a presentation this Thursday of the initiative after the agreement with Sánchez, Escrivá has been cautious: "It is within the possible, but there are some fringes." Surprisingly, the minister has assured that he has learned from the press that he had intended for him to present him with Iglesias.

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