The Tax Agency and Social Security will cross-check information for four years on the beneficiaries of the Minimum Living Income, their amounts and level of income, as well as other benefits. That is, the agreement will be extended until 2030, which will allow the National Social Security Institute (INSS) to access tax data and know how much the beneficiaries receive and know if they meet the level of income required to continue receiving the aid.
The measure does not only affect the Minimum Living Income. It also affects pensions for retirement, widowhood, orphanhood, permanent disability, pensions for family members, minimum pensions and other aid managed by Social Security. In practice, this exchange of information seeks to enable the administration to more accurately verify the real economic situation of each household.
This agreement comes at a time when, according to statistics from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, the Minimum Living Income reached 2,441,675 people spread across 798,312 homes and where the average monthly amount is 546.8 euros per benefit. In addition, 552,300 households collected the Child Assistance Supplement.
The Minimum Living Income is a supplementary income aid intended for people who live alone or are part of a cohabitation unit and do not have sufficient resources to cover their basic needs. Although it is an aid of an indefinite nature, that does not mean that it is free from revision. Social Security checks from time to time (normally at the end of the year) that the economic vulnerability requirements and the rest of the conditions provided for in the regulation continue to be met, something that has already been explained. Alfonso Muñoz Cuenca, Social Security official.
For this reason, the Treasury provides the data to Social Security, since this information helps it to know if the requirements continue to be met, both for new applications and to review already approved aid. In this way, Social Security can know more quickly and reliably changes in income, assets or the situation of the family unit that may affect the right to receive aid.
The beneficiaries of the Minimum Living Income also have a series of obligations. Among them is communicate any change of address or personal and family situation that affects the cohabitation unit within the established period. They must also provide the documentation that is required, report certain trips abroad and submit the personal income tax return each year.
When that information is not communicated or the administration detects that conditions have changed, the file may be reviewed. This review may end in a modification of the amount, in the temporary suspension of the benefit or in the claim for amounts collected improperly.