Las prestaciones económicas de protección social de las comunidades autónomas: previsiones legales de seguimiento y de evaluación de su efectividad, con especial referencia a la renta garantizada de ciudadanía en Cataluña y el ingreso mínimo vital estatal

AutorSixto Garganté Petit
CargoLawyer, non-tenured Lecturer of Labour Law and Social Protection at Pompeu Fabra University and co-spokesperson of the promoters of the Popular Legislative Initiative (PLI) for a guaranteed minimum income during the parliamentary proceedings. Faculty of Law, Law Academic Coordination Unit
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SOCIAL PROTECTION BENEFITS OF THE AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES: LEGAL
PROVISIONS FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATING THEIR EFFECTIVENESS, WITH SPECIAL
REFERENCE TO THE GUARANTEED MINIMUM INCOME OF CATALONIA AND THE MINIMUM
VITAL INCOME OF SPAIN*
Sixto Garganté Petit**
Abstract
All the Autonomous Communities (AC) have social protection benefits to tackle the poverty and vulnerability of
individuals, families and household units, to guarantee them the minimum necessary to live in dignity. These are —most
of them— economic benets based on a subjective right, of a periodic nature, conditioned to the fullment of the legally
established requirements and to the fullment of certain obligations. Despite the different regulations for these economic
benets, in all cases it is a right derived from the principle of social cohesion and, also in all cases, they have the same
purpose connected to a result: to guarantee those who do not have economic resources the minimum necessary to live in
dignity. The purpose of the article is to analyse the legal instruments for monitoring and evaluating this right to guarantee
the effectiveness of the benet, from the perspective of its purpose and its legal nature. There will also be consideration
of some possible evaluation parameters applied to the guaranteed minimum income of Catalonia and, nally, it aims to
highlight the opportunity that entails the entry into force of the minimum vital income of Spain.
Key words: economic benets; social protection; effectiveness; economic adequacy; coverage rate; guaranteed
minimum income; minimum vital income.
LES PRESTACIONS ECONÒMIQUES DE PROTECCIÓ SOCIAL DE LES COMUNITATS
AUTÒNOMES: PREVISIONS LEGALS DE SEGUIMENT I D’AVALUACIÓ DE LA SEVA
EFECTIVITAT, AMB ESPECIAL REFERÈNCIA A LA RENDA GARANTIDA DE CIUTADANIA
A CATALUNYA I A L’INGRÉS MÍNIM VITAL ESTATAL
Resum
Totes les comunitats autònomes (CA) disposen de prestacions econòmiques de protecció social per fer front a la situació
de pobresa i vulnerabilitat de les persones, les famílies i les unitats de convivència i per garantir-los els mínims d’una
vida digna. Es tracta de prestacions econòmiques de dret subjectiu —la majoria—, de caràcter periòdic, condicionades
al compliment dels requisits legalment establerts i al compliment de determinades obligacions. Malgrat les diferents
regulacions d’aquestes prestacions econòmiques, en tots els casos es tracta d’un dret derivat del principi de cohesió
social i, també en tots els casos, tenen la mateixa nalitat, vinculada a un resultat: garantir els mínims d’una vida
digna a qui no disposi de recursos econòmics. L’article té per objecte l’anàlisi dels instruments legals de seguiment i
d’avaluació del dret per tal de garantir l’efectivitat de la prestació econòmica, des de la perspectiva de la seva nalitat
i del seu caràcter jurídic, també es fa una aproximació a uns possibles paràmetres d’avaluació aplicats a la prestació
econòmica de la renda garantida de ciutadania a Catalunya i, nalment es vol posar èmfasi en l’oportunitat que suposa
l’entrada en vigor de la prestació econòmica estatal de l’ingrés mínim vital.
Paraules clau: prestacions econòmiques; protecció social; efectivitat; suciència econòmica; taxa de cobertura; renda
garantida de ciutadania; ingrés mínim vital.
* This article is a translation of an original one in Catalan.
** Sixto Garganté Petit, lawyer, non-tenured Lecturer of Labour Law and Social Protection at Pompeu Fabra University and co-spokesperson of the
promoters of the Popular Legislative Initiative (PLI) for a guaranteed minimum income during the parliamentary proceedings. Faculty of Law, Law
Academic Coordination Unit. Roger de Llúria building (Ciutadella campus), Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona. sixto.gargante@upf.edu.
Article received: 13.01.2021. Blind review: 27.01.2021 and 15.02.2021. Final version accepted: 25.02.2021.
Recommended citation: Garganté Petit, Sixto. (2021). Social protection benets of the Autonomous Communities: legal provisions for monitoring
and evaluating their effectiveness, with special reference to the guaranteed minimum income of Catalonia and the minimum vital income of Spain.
Revista Catalana de Dret Públic, 62, 53-71. https://doi.org/10.2436/rcdp.i62.2021.3596.
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Summary
1 Introduction
2 Object and purpose of the AC social protection benets
3 Legal provisions for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the social protection benets of the AC
4 The legal obligation to evaluate the effectiveness of the AC social protection benets and the possible
evaluation parameters of their effectiveness
4.1 Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court, of 9 February 2010 (Hartz case)
4.2 Some decisions of the Spanish Constitutional Court
4.3 The European Social Charter of the Council of Europe
4.4 The Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia
5 Application of possible monitoring and evaluation parameters of the RGC benet in Catalonia
5.1 Different data that can be taken into account to evaluate economic adequacy
5.2 Data on the application and effectiveness of the RGC benet regarding its coverage rate
6 Immediate future perspectives and coordination of the AC social protection benets with the non-contributory
pension of the Spanish State Social Security system, the IMV
7 Bibliography. Analysed legal provisions
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1 Introduction
The legal origin of the current social protection benets of the Autonomous Communities (AC) can be found in
article 148) 1, xx), of the Spanish Constitution: “1. The Autonomous Communities may assume competences
over the following matters. xx) social assistance”.
In this way, the Constitution wanted to establish a clear difference in competences, which has not been exempt
from problems and difculties, between the exclusive power of the Spanish State regarding Social Security,
in article 149) 1, xvii) “Basic legislation and nancial system of the Social Security, without prejudice to the
implementation of its services by the Autonomous Communities”, and the competence of the Autonomous
Communities in social assistance matters.
Regarding the current economic benets of the AC, it can be said that the path taken to date has been long,
diverse, with changes over time and with different results in each AC, despite there being similar or even
identical features in most of the legal regulations of these economic benets.
This path began, rst, with the AC assuming the “social assistance” competence through the corresponding
statutes of autonomy; second, with the regulation by law or decree of the economic benets (rst for social
assistance and then for social protection); later the reform of the various statutes of autonomy1 in the rst decade
of the 21st century entailed, with differences between the various statutes, the statutory acknowledgement
of the subjective right of individuals, families and household units in poverty to an economic benet to
guarantee the minimum necessary to live in dignity, and regarding those AC that did not reform their statutes
of autonomy, the legal acknowledgement of the subjective right to an economic benet has been updated in
more recent laws.
Although there are some AC2 that continue having an economic benet that is not guaranteed, in the sense that
it is not a subjective right, most economic benets that exist today are fundamentally characterised by: rst,
they are based on a subjective right; second, they are conditioned to the fullment of certain requirements,
which are generically the same (age, denition of what comprises a family or household unit, length of legal
residence, setting of a certain amount that denes the lack of income requirement and which does not always
coincide with the amount of the economic benet), but with signicant specic variables in the content of
each of the requirements. Third, their enjoyment is also subject to the fullment of certain obligations, whose
non-compliance may imply the suspension or loss of the right; fourth, they are compatible with other possible
economic benets; fth, the amount of the economic benet is very diverse (and normally comprises the
necessary amount, when added to any income they may have, to reach the regulated amount of the benet),
and is set by law passed by the Parliament or by decision of the relevant Government. Sixth, the length of
time the right can be accessed is regulated, generally the duration of the situation of need.
The article does not aim to analyse any of the previous regulations of the economic benets,3 but to analyse
the legal provisions for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the AC benets from the perspective
that all of them aim to guarantee the minimum necessary for individuals, families and household units in
need to live in dignity.
To carry out this analysis, rst it will be necessary to examine their object and purpose, then we analyse the
existing legal provisions for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness, and the possible parameters to carry
out this evaluation.
Subsequently, the legal obligation of monitoring and evaluation by the AC governments is analysed, and the
possible parameters to evaluate the effectiveness of the guaranteed minimum income of Catalonia (RGC, by
its acronym in Catalan) are considered.
1 The statutes of autonomy and the ordinary laws analysed are in the section “Bibliography. Analysed legal provisions”.
2 The Autonomous Communities that still have a social protection benet that is not guaranteed are: The Canary Islands, Castilla-La
Mancha and Melilla.
3 In this sense, see El Sistema Público de Servicios Sociales. Informe de rentas mínimas de inserción. Año 2019, of the Ministry of
Social Rights and 2030 Agenda.
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Finally, but also from the same perspective, future opportunities are considered with regards to the entry
into force (1 June 2020) of the minimum vital income (IMV, by its acronym in Spanish), a non-contributory
pension of the State Social Security system, and its necessary coordination with the AC benets.
2 Object and purpose of the AC social protection benets
The statutory laws and/or ordinary legislation that establish and regulate the economic benets, beyond what
they are called,4 dene their object and purpose with an objective element, which denes the purpose, and a
subjective element, which determines to whom they are addressed.
Thus, they establish that their object and purpose is to guarantee the minimum necessary for their beneciaries
to live in dignity and do so with expressions such as “cover basic needs”, “guarantee economic resources
of subsistence”, “guarantee some conditions to live in dignity”, “alleviate situations of personal, social and
labour exclusion”, “combat poverty and facilitate social integration”, “coexist with human dignity”, or, in
the words of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia (article 24.3.), “Those individuals or families who are
in a situation of poverty have the right to a guaranteed minimum income that ensures them the minimum
necessary to live in dignity”.
Therefore, the individuals, families and household units that “do not have sufcient economic resources or are
in a situation or at risk of social exclusion”, “are in a situation of poverty”, “do not have sufcient economic
resources to cover their basic needs”, “are in a situation of economic vulnerability”, “are in a situation of
need” always have this right, but in accordance with the legal conditions, if they meet the legally established
access requirements.
They are, therefore, economic benets based on a subjective right linked to the purpose of guaranteeing the
minimum necessary to live in dignity and, in this sense, they are instruments of the fundamental right to
dignity, a right that public authorities must make effective, and this effectiveness should be evaluated from the
principle of economic adequacy of the benets (they must guarantee the minimum necessary to live in dignity)
and the principle of coverage (those in a situation of need must be entitled to it), without prejudice, as has
been said, to the necessary fullment of the legally established requirements, at any time, to access them, and
with the understanding that they may always be subject to legal modication, if necessary, to facilitate access.
3 Legal provisions for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the social protection
benets of the AC
Specically, it is of interest to analyse whether the legal norms that regulate these economic benets contain
provisions for monitoring and evaluating their effectiveness and, if that is the case, their nature and content.
Legal provisions of monitoring and evaluation must be deemed, regarding the principle of economic adequacy,
those that regulate the initial determination of their economic amount and those that regulate the evolution/
update of the initial amount and, regarding the coverage rate, the provisions that envisage the evaluation of
their effectiveness regarding the individuals, families and household units that have accessed them and those
that, despite being in need, have not been able to access them.
The legal norms that regulate the initial determination of the economic amount and the evolution/update of
the initial amount do so in many different ways.
Regarding the initial determination of the economic amount and also the amount itself, the legal options of
the AC are extraordinarily diverse, and can be grouped into:
A rst option consisting in not xing an economic amount and regulating that the amount be determined
annually through the Budget Law of the AC or by a governmental decision.
A second option consisting in linking the amount of the economic benet to a previously existing legal/
economic parameter; in this case we nd:
4 Guaranteed minimum income, basic insertion income, social basic income, social inclusion income, minimum insertion income, etc.
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a) Most AC have chosen the public indicator of multiple effects income (IPREM, by its acronym in
Spanish)5 and, in these cases, the amount of the economic benet is often a certain percentage, between
100% and 75%, when it is a benet for one individual only.
b) Other AC have chosen the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI, by its acronym in Spanish)6 as a
parameter and, in these cases, the amount of the economic benet is often a certain percentage of its
amount, between 88% and 52% when it is a benet for one individual only.
c) Catalonia has chosen the adequate income indicator for Catalonia (IRSC, by its acronym in Catalan)7
as the parameter for the amount.
A third option consisting in establishing the initial amount at a specic economic amount without connecting
it to any previously existing legal parameters.
In all cases, increased amounts are established when the economic benet is for a family or household unit,
depending on the number of members.
Financing is always charged to the AC budgets and, in those cases —the majority— where there is a subjective
right to the benet, the extendable nature of credits to pay the benets is legally provided.
Regarding the evolution/update of the initial amount, the legal options are also very diverse:
A rst option consists in not envisaging the evolution/update of the amount, so that it is left to the government’s
discretion, either directly or through the corresponding Budget Law.
A second option has been to link the evolution of the amount of the economic benet to the evolution of the
amount of the parameter used to x the initial amount.8
Finally, there is one AC, the Chartered Community of Navarre, that has regulated an automatic revaluation
clause, connected to the “greater value between the increase of the CPI in Navarre and that of the average
salaries of Navarre”.
The amounts of the AC benets in 2020 are extraordinarily different as can be seen in column 1 of table 7 in
section 6 below, in which one can also see in column 2, the amount of the IMV benet, valid since 1 June 2020.
The legal provisions that regulate the evaluation of the coverage rate of the benets (their effectiveness
regarding individuals, families and household units that need them) are also very different.
In nearly all the AC, the legal norm that regulates the social protection benet creates monitoring and
evaluation committees, with various names and different functions, that are barely or extremely specic. The
diverse existing legal regulations can be grouped into the following options:
A rst option is very generic regulation, in the sense that a periodic evaluation must be carried out.
5 The IPREM is set annually by the Spanish Government and for 2020 was 537.84 euros per month; 6,454.03 euros per year in 12
payments; and 7,519.59 euros per year in 14 payments; the same amount as in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In 2017 it underwent a small
economic revaluation compared to 2016, the nal year in which the amount had been “frozen” since 2010. The IPREM for 2021
has increased 5% and is 564.90 euros per month, and 6,778.80 euros per year in 12 payments, and 7,908.60 euros per year in 14
payments.
6 The SMI is set annually by the Spanish Government and for 2020 was 950 euros per month in 14 payments and 13,300 euros per
year. The amount remains the same in 2021.
7 The IRSC was regulated by Law 13/2006, of 27 July, on social benets of an economic nature (article 15.2). The IRSC is set
annually in the Budget Law of the Generalitat and in 2020 was 664 euros per month (12 payments) and 7,967.73 euros per year; the
amount has been the same since 2010.
8 In this sense, the obligation of the Government of the Generalitat to include in the Budget Law bill the necessary budget item to
guarantee the effectiveness of the law on the guaranteed minimum income ,regulated in the second nal provision of Law 14/2017,
on budget items, that establishes that “The Government must include in the Bill on the Generalitat’s Budget the budget item necessary
to guarantee the effectiveness of this law”, and that “The Law on the Generalitat’s Budget must annually set the amount of the self-
sufciency income indicator of Catalonia”.
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A second, not so generic option consists in envisaging the obligation to evaluate in order to guarantee maximum
effectiveness of the economic benet.
A third option is to establish that the results must be evaluated to make proposals for possible improvements
to the benet.
A fourth option is to expressly envisage the obligation to evaluate the impact of the benet regarding the
objective and subjective elements of its purpose.
Finally, reference must be made to the regulation of the RGC in Catalonia, because it is the most precise
regarding the evaluation parameters; Law 14/2017, of 20 July, on the guaranteed minimum income has the
following provisions:
a) Obligation of the Administration of the Generalitat to annually evaluate9 the application of Law
14/2017; specically, it must evaluate the coverage rate of the benet in the whole population and
also the adequacy of the benet to guarantee the minimum necessary to live in dignity.
b) Creation of the government committee of the guaranteed minimum income and its task to evaluate
the coverage rate of the benet in the whole population and its economic adequacy.10
In short, the legal norms that regulate the AC benets envisage the obligation to evaluate their effectiveness
but are these evaluations really carried out? In Catalonia, at the end of 2020, three years after the Law on the
guaranteed minimum income entered into force, the Administration and Government of the Generalitat have
not met their annual obligations to evaluate the effectiveness of the RGC benet; but it must be specied that,
on 22 December 2020 and as a result of an express and repeated request, the Department of Labor, Social
Affairs and Families gave the promoters of the PLI for a guaranteed minimum income the General evaluation
report 2019. Analysis of the coverage rate and economic adequacy.11
4 The legal obligation to evaluate the effectiveness of the AC social protection benets and
the possible evaluation parameters of their effectiveness
The purpose of guaranteeing the minimum necessary to live in dignity grants special consideration and legal
protection to the right to the economic benets of the AC.
It is undeniable that the Autonomous Community governments have the competence and power, and also the
obligation, to decide and execute their public policies, obviously also with regard to these economic benets;
there is absolutely no intention of questioning these powers, the idea is to afrm and emphasise the fact
that the governments have some “obligations of results” and also, and this is the object of this work, some
obligations to monitor and evaluate their own policies to make the right to economic benets effective. It is
worth mentioning the legal nature of these obligations, although briey.
4.1 Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court, of 9 February 2010 (Hartz case)
The legal obligation to evaluate the adequacy of the economic benets12 that must guarantee the minimum
necessary to live in dignity, when establishing the amount, was analysed and decided by the German Federal
9 The sixth additional provision of Law 14/2017, on the general evaluation report, provides that “The Administration of the
Generalitat must prepare an annual report on the application of this law. This report must evaluate the rate of coverage of the benet
and its economic sufciency”.
10 Article 23 paragraph 2 letter c) of the Law 14/2017 on the guaranteed minimum income provides that the “Monitoring Body
of the guaranteed minimum income” (the RGC monitoring body) has, among its functions, “to evaluate the rate of coverage of the
benet in the whole population and its economic sufciency”.
11 At the time of writing this article there is no record that this report has been analysed and approved by the government committee
on the guaranteed minimum income, and it cannot be found on the Department of Labor, Social Affairs and Families website.
12 See a specic analysis on the question in Alexandre de le Court (2019), Sufciency of Social Security Benets: In Search of Legal
Criteria (6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 July 2019).
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Constitutional Court, in a Judgment of 9 February 2010, the Hartz case, on the amount of a social assistance
benet (ALG-II system).
This judgment from the German Federal Constitutional Court is cited by Professor Marc Carrillo i Lòpez,
to afrm that “It is, therefore, in the judicial logic of these jurisdictional decisions that the provision on the
right to the guaranteed minimum income provided in article 24.3 of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia is
framed within the chapter on social rights”.13
Regarding the legal obligation before us, the German Federal Constitutional Court makes the following
considerations:
1) In a social state under the rule of law, the right to dignity is a fundamental individual right that is enforceable
and is linked to the guarantee of the minimum necessary to live, which the State is obliged to guarantee in
the form of material aid.
2) The subjective right to economic benets only affects the guarantee, but not its specic level (amount),
because the determination of the amount corresponds to the legislative power.
3) However, in any case, the courts are to review the determination of the amount of the benets from
two perspectives: rst, the courts must check if the amount is manifestly inadequate and, second, if the
methodology and parameters used to establish the amount are adequate (they allow to meet the guarantee)
for the fundamental right, because this methodology and the parameters do form part of the constitutional
guarantee.
4) In short, the German Federal Constitutional Court considers that the determination of the amount of these
economic benets are subject to formal requirements: they must use and explain facts and reliable data and
convincing methods of calculation to guarantee, when applicable, a subsequent judicial review, which may
pass judgment on whether the minimum necessary to live in dignity is guaranteed.
5) Insofar as the German legislator had not conrmed that the method of calculation to establish the amount
of the economic benet was based on data that adequately reected the beneciaries’ needs, the Court held
that the legal norms that had established the amount of the benets in question were incompatible with the
constitutionally recognised right to dignity.
Therefore, the provisions of the legal norms that regulate the AC benets and the political-legislative decision
on their effectiveness must explain facts and reliable data and convincing methods of calculation to guarantee,
when applicable, a subsequent judicial review.
The previous legal considerations on the adequacy of the amount of the benets can be extended to the legal
obligation to always evaluate and draw attention to their coverage rate regarding the individuals, families and
household units that need them, and who are holders of the right to dignity.
4.2 Some decisions of the Spanish Constitutional Court
Although supercially and from a different perspective, the question of the economic adequacy of the public
benets was analysed by the Spanish Constitutional Court in Judgment 134/1987, of 21 July, as a result of
some questions of unconstitutionality raised by the Tribunal Central de Trabajo (Central Labour Court) against
the article that set the economic limit to the amount of Social Security system pensions of the National General
Budget Law for 1983; although regarding contributory pensions the Constitutional Court ruled on the adequacy
of a certain amount of the public pensions, regarding articles 40 and 53 of the Constitution and articles 10.2
(right to dignity) and 1.1. (social State clause) and rejected the questions of unconstitutionality raised.
More recently, the Constitutional Court, also indirectly and supercially, tackled the question in Judgment
49/2015, of 5 March, which ruled on an action of unconstitutionality led by 146 Deputies of various
13 Article published in Revista Catalana de Dret Públic, issue 56 of June 2018, The nancial crisis and social rights in the public
policies of the Generalitat, by Marc Carrillo i López, councillor on the Council for Statutory Guarantees of Catalonia and Professor
of Constitutional Law at Pompeu Fabra University.
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parliamentary groups against article 2.1 of Royal Decree-Law 28/2012, of 30 November, on measures to
consolidate and guarantee the Social Security system, which left without effect the automatic revaluation of
pensions of the Social Security public system; the Constitutional Court dismissed the appeal.14
4.3 The European Social Charter of the Council of Europe
The legal obligation to evaluate the adequacy of the economic benets that must guarantee the minimum
necessary to live in dignity also derives from the European Social Charter of the Council of Europe, a binding
international treaty, ratied by Spain regarding the application of article 13,15 on the right to social assistance.
The European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe is the body that supervises the application
of the European Social Charter by member States, using reports led by the States themselves. This Committee,
in its annual report for 201316 corresponding to Spain’s compliance of the European Social Charter, concluded
that the amounts of the social assistance benets of the AC, at that time, were manifestly inadequate, except
for those of the Basque Country (658.50 euros/month) and the Chartered Community of Navarre (641.40
euros/month); the equivalent benet in Catalonia was the minimum insertion income (RMI, by its acronym
in Catalan), with an average amount of 455 euros/month, and in 2017 (until 15 September, when the RGC
entered into force) it was 502 euros/month.17
The European Committee of Social Rights considers that “the fact that social assistance falls within the
competence of the Autonomous Communities and autonomous cities does not constitute any excuse to
exonerate a State Party of the obligations it has signed up to when ratifying the Charter, as even when national
Law attributes the responsibility of exercising a specic function to local or regional authorities, the States
Parties to the Charter continue to be compelled, by virtue of their international obligations, to ensure these
responsibilities are correctly undertaken”.18
In fact, it can be said that if the European Committee of Social Rights were to assess the current (2020) amount
of the social protection benets of the AC, as they did in 2012, it would surely continue to consider that they
breach article 13.1 of the European Social Charter because the amounts are below the poverty threshold, as
can be seen in Table 7 of section 6 below.
4.4 The Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia
In Catalonia, the legal obligation to evaluate the economic adequacy and coverage rate of the benets that must
guarantee the minimum necessary to live in dignity also derives from the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia.
The Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, in article 4 sections 2 and 3 has a social clause that recognises the right
to live in dignity (article 15.2), so that “those individuals or families in a situation of poverty have the right
to a guaranteed minimum income that ensures them the minimum necessary to live in dignity, in accordance
with legally established conditions” (article 24.3), and, article 37.1, on guarantees of statutory rights, regulates
that “The rights recognised in Chapters I, II and III of this Title bind all the public authorities of Catalonia
and, depending on the nature of each right, individual citizens. Regulations passed by the public authorities
14 References for these judgments of the Spanish Constitutional Court have been taken from Protección por desempleo y derechos
fundamentales, el caso español en contexto, Alexandre de le Court, 2016, Tirant lo Blanch.
15 “Article 13. The right to social and medical assistance. With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to social and
medical assistance, the Parties undertake: 1) to ensure that any person who is without adequate resources and who is unable to secure
such resources by his own efforts or from other sources, in particular by benets under a social security scheme, be granted adequate
assistance, and, in case of sickness, the care necessitated by his condition”.
16 Report cited by Jimena Quesada, Luis. (2014). Sostenibilidad y efectividad de los derechos sociales. Incluso en tiempos de
crisis. In Carlos Luis Alfonso Mellado, Luis Jimena Quesada and Maria del Carmen Salcedo Beltrán, La jurisprudencia del Comité
Europeo de Derechos Sociales frente a la crisis económica (p.13-48). Albacete: Bomarzo.
17 See Idescat. Statistics on social insertion income. Minimum insertion income. Catalonia.
18 Jimena Quesada, 2014, op. cit. Jimena Quesada is a Professor of Constitutional Law and was President of the European Committee
of Social Rights of the Council of Europe (2009-2014). Currently (since April 2019) he is an ad hoc judge on the European Court
of Human Rights and an independent representative (alternate) of the Council of Europe before the FRA (European Union Agency
for Fundamental Rights).
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of Catalonia shall respect these rights and shall be interpreted and applied in the most appropriate way to
ensure their full effectiveness”.
And for that reason, the Government of the Generalitat and the Parliament, when establishing the amount of
the RGC benet (in other words, when setting the amount of the IRSC in the Budget Law) should explicitly
evaluate, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the guaranteed minimum income already mentioned,
its economic adequacy and coverage rate. This legal obligation is independent of the specic decision of the
Parliament on the economic amount of the benet, it is clear and must enable us to know and evaluate whether
it guarantees the minimum necessary to live in dignity. This is the sense of the sixth additional provision and
article 23 of the Law 14/2017 on the guaranteed minimum income transcribed in footnotes numbers 9 and 10.
5 Application of possible monitoring and evaluation parameters of the RGC benefit in
Catalonia
Although it far exceeds the objective of this brief article, some considerations are to be given on the evaluation
of the economic adequacy and coverage rate parameters of the RGC benet, which could also be useful to
evaluate the other AC benets.
5.1 Different data that can be taken into account to evaluate economic adequacy
Evaluation of the adequacy of the RGC benet to guarantee the minimum necessary to live in dignity can
be done from different perspectives: one could be the amount that denes the poverty risk threshold, as the
Council of Europe/European Committee of Social Rights uses; another could be taking into account the
evolution of the amount of the RGC benet in Catalonia relative to the evolution of the cost of living, and
other circumstances could also be considered such as, for example, comparing the economic cost of similar
benets that exist in other AC.
From the perspective of the parameter of the amount that denes the poverty risk threshold, in accordance
with this parameter, the following data is available:19
Table 1
2019 Amount that denes the
poverty risk threshold.
Statistical Institute of
Catalonia (Idescat)
RGC amount from
15.09.2019
Law 14/2017
IRSC amount
Budget Law
1 adult €10,674.1 €7,728 €7,967.73
2 adults €16,011.2 €11,472
1 adult and 1 child €17,078.6 €12,348
2 adults and 2 children €22,415.7 €13,224
5 people €14,172
(Compiled by the author from data from the Catalan Government Report, Idescat, Law 14/2017 (RGC) and Law 13/2006
(IRSC)).
In accordance with these data, the amount of the RGC benet (column 3) during 2019 was lower than the
IRSC amount (column 4), and it was also a lot lower than the amount that denes the risk of poverty according
to Idescat (column 2).
From the perspective of the evolution of the amount of the RGC benet in Catalonia relative to the evolution of
the cost of living, with the sole interest of drawing attention to the parameter, the following data is available,20
although it is only the data for one person.
19 Idescat. Annual indicators. Poverty threshold risk. By household composition.
20 Idescat. Short-term economic indicators. Consumer Price Index (CPI).
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Table 2
CPI, general
index
IRSC RGC amount,
December
Poverty risk threshold
2007 €7,444.10/yr €8,183.50/yr
2008 €7,734.16/yr €8,748.00/yr
2009 €7,888.84/yr €10,040.34/yr
2010 94.05 €7,967.73/yr €9,888.73/yr
2017 103.40 €7,967.73/yr €6,772.57/yr €10,096.50/yr
2018 104.90 €7,967.73/yr €7,250.63/yr €10,981.40/yr
2019 105.80 €7,967.73/yr €7,728.70/yr €10,674.10/yr
2020 104.50 €7,967.73/yr €7,967.73/yr, from
April 2020
Not available
(Compiled by the author from data from Idescat and Law 14/2017).
From this parameter the amount of the RGC benet has lost purchasing power; the amount of IRSC in 2010 is
the amount of RGC for one person from 1 April 2020, because gradual implementation has occurred regarding
the amount of the benet and the IRSC amount has been “frozen” since 2010.21
In the time between 2010 and 2020, there has been an increase in the cost of living of more than 10 points
and the RGC amount is the same as it would have been in 2010.
From the compared perspective of the economic cost of similar benets that exist in other AC, the data22
available (there are data corresponding to all the AC) for 2019 are the following:
Table 3
2019 Basic amount
(1 person)
Maximum amount
(household unit)
Total annual
cost (million
euros)
% of total
costs of the AC
budget
Catalonia €644/month €1,181/month 267,530,528 0.75%
Basque Country €667.05/month €947.51/month 422,486,652 3.63%
Chartered Community
of Navarre
€623.63/month €1,247.25/month 103,087,441.69 2.39%
Community of Madrid €400/month €900/month 155,296,179.88 0.68%
Valencian Community €630/month €990/month 151,391,671.11 0.67%
Aragon €492/month €1,080/month 46,762,407.06 0.81%
Castilla-La Mancha €546/month €1,100.40/month 17,751,609.46 0.21%
Andalusia €419.52/month €779.87/month 107,673,708.50 0.33%
Extremadura €537.84/month €860.54/month 47,434,000 0.91%
Principality of Asturias €448.28/month €739.65/month 120,746,225.06 2.70%
(Compiled by the author from the source cited in footnote number 3).
Using the aforementioned comparative data of different AC, the idea is just to show, rstly, regarding the
amounts of the different benets, that the amount of the RGC benet is the highest after that of the Basque
Country; secondly, that the total cost of the RGC benet is also the highest after the cost assumed by the
21 Third transitional provision of Law 14/2017, of 20 July, on the guaranteed minimum income.
22 See footnote number 3. And also, the Department of the Vice-presidency and of the Economy and Finance of the Government of
Catalonia, Department of the Economy and Finance of the Basque Government, and the Department of the Economy and Finance
of the Chartered Community of Navarre.
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Basque Country (although the population of the Basque Country is much lower than that of Catalonia); and,
thirdly, regarding the percentage of this cost of the total budget of each AC, Catalonia is below the Basque
Country, the Chartered Community of Navarre, the Principality of Asturias, Aragon and Extremadura.
These are undoubtedly public policy options that do not directly serve to evaluate the economic adequacy of
the different benets, but which indicate certain priorities and allow us to verify that in Catalonia there is a
signicant margin to decide the increase of the amount of the RGC benet.
Regarding all the different data on the different parameters, the following considerations can be made: with
the RGC an important step was taken to reach economic adequacy if we take into account that from September
2017 (RMI, 502 euros/month) it became the RGC (664 euros/month, April 2020). However, the current amount
of the RGC continues to be inadequate to guarantee the minimum necessary to live in dignity.
5.2 Data on the application and effectiveness of the RGC benet regarding its coverage rate
All existing studies on the coverage rate of social protection benets of the AC draw attention to their
extremely low coverage rates. As an example, one can cite the works included in the footnotes.2324
As regards the RGC specically, and as a preliminary matter, it must be said that only the Administration and
Government of the Generalitat have the necessary data to specically evaluate the coverage rate of the RGC
benet and, regarding evaluation, the power to make the specic and denite management and economic
decisions, or to propose suitable legislative changes (without prejudice to other possible parliamentary
legislative initiatives) for the necessary increase of the coverage rate.
That said, the evaluation of the coverage rate to guarantee the minimum necessary to live in dignity can be
done from different perspectives: the total population of Catalonia, the population of Catalonia that is at risk
of poverty, and the population of Catalonia that is in a situation of severe material deprivation. But it could
also be interesting to do a comparative analysis with the coverage rate of similar benets in other AC.
Regarding the evolution of the data on the RGC benet coverage rate, at the time of writing this article it has
still not been possible to evaluate, with data, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the whole population
of Catalonia and, particularly, on the individuals, families and household units that were at risk of poverty
and in severe poverty before March 2020. Unfortunately, the economic or social impact will be strong and
dramatic and will result in a worsening of their chances of living in dignity.
But the data available in October 2020 allow us to analyse it from the perspective of the necessary evaluation
of the effectiveness of the right to RGC.
The Department of Labor, Social Affairs and Families periodically publishes different reports with the main
data on implementation of the RGC; the data shown in table 4 below are those provided in the reports dated
5.06.2019 (presented at the meeting of the government committee on the guaranteed minimum income),
26.08.2019 and 30.09.2020,25 and, nally, in the Evaluation Report 2019 given to the promoters of the PLI
for a guaranteed minimum income on 22 December 2020. The Generalitat also provides data annually to the
Ministry of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda.26
23 European Minimum Income Network (EMIN), 2014. Presentation Informe sobre las rentas mínimas en España by Graciela
Malgesini Rey, EMIN coordinator in Spain.
Board of Third Social Sector Entities of Catalonia, May 2014, Dossier Catalunya Social. Propostes des del Tercer Sector. Nova pobresa i
renda mínima d’inserció.
Federation of Catalan Social Action Entities (ECAS), July 2017, Informe INSOCAT per a la millora de l’acció social, núm. 8. La crisi no
s’acaba, la pobresa es cronica and also Informe Aplicació de la Renda Garantida de Ciutadania. Balanç dels primers mesos, July 2018.
24 El Sistema Público de Servicios Sociales. Informe de rentas mínimas de inserción. Año 2018, of the then Ministry of Health,
Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare.
25 https://treballiaferssocials.gencat.cat/web/.content/03ambits_tematics/06pobresa_i_inclusio_social/RendaGarantidaCiutadania/nou/
destacats_laterals/Principals_dades_implementacio_RGC.pdf.
26 See footnote number 3.
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Table 4
Beneciaries
2017 RMI and complements of the Government of the Generalitat to
non-contributory pensions, until 15.09.2017: 107,42027 people
2017 RGC, from 15.09.2017: 107,420 people
2018 RGC: 114,011 people
2019 RGC: 123,507 people
2020 (30.09) RGC: 141,097 people
(Compiled by the author from data provided by the Department of Labor, Social Affairs and Families of the Generalitat
of Catalonia).27
On 15 September 2017, Law 14/2017, of 20 July, on the guaranteed minimum income entered into force with the
integration of all the beneciaries of the previous RMI and of the complements to non-contributory Spanish State
pensions into the RGC, which were already managed by the Generalitat, but not a single new incorporation occurred;
in other words, during the rst year (2017) the coverage rate stayed the same.
In 2018, with the Generalitat’s own data, there were 114,011 beneciaries, an increase of 6,591 beneciaries,
in other words, a 6.1% increase of the coverage rate compared to 2017.
In 2019, with the Generalitat’s own data, there were 123,507 beneciaries, an increase of 9,496 beneciaries
and an 8.32% increase of the coverage rate compared to 2018.
In 2020, up to 30 September, with the Generalitat’s own data, there were 141,097 beneciaries, an increase of
17,590 new beneciaries and a 14.24% increase of the coverage rate compared to 2019. In fact, the increase
mainly occurred from May 2020 (entry into force of Decree 55/2020 and publication of the Generalitat’s
Budget for 2020); from 1 May to 30 September there was an increase of 14,646 new beneciaries.
However, the aforementioned data on beneciaries of the RGC benet must be related to the populational
parameters, the rate of poverty risk and severe material deprivation provided by Idescat.28
Table 5
Population
of
Catalonia
Poverty
risk rate
Rate of
severe
material
deprivation
RGC
beneciaries
RGC
coverage
rate in total
population
RGC
coverage
rate in the
population
at risk of
poverty
RGC
coverage
rate in the
population
in severe
material
deprivation
2017 7,555,830 20% 5% 107,420 1.42% 7.10% 28.43%
2018 7,600,065 21.3% 6.5% 114,011 1.50% 7.04% 23.07%
2019 7,675,217 19.5% 5.7% 123,507 1.61% 8.25% 28.23%
2020 7,727,029 (2019)
19.5%
1,506,770
people
(2019)
5.7%
440,440
people
(30.09.2020)
141,097
people
1.82% 9.36% 32%
(Compiled by the author from data from Idescat and the same Department of Labor, Social Affairs and Families as in
footnote number 25).
27 Some of the cited reports mention 107,134 beneciaries of the RGC in 2017.
28 Population: Idescat. Total and foreign population series. Catalonia. Poverty risk rate: Idescat. Statistical Yearbook of Catalonia.
At-risk-of-poverty rate. By sex and age groups. 2019. Severe material deprivation coverage: Idescat. European Union indicators.
Severely materially deprived people. 2019.
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The coverage rate of the RGC benet regarding the total population of Catalonia during 2017, 2018, 2019
and up to the data for September 2020, has been increasing, although slowly and inadequately.
The coverage rate of the RGC benet regarding the population at risk of poverty during 2017, 2018, 2019
and up to the data for September 2020, has been increasing, although slowly, but in September 2020 the RGC
benet only reached 9.36% of the people in Catalonia who are at risk of poverty.
The coverage rate of the RGC benet regarding the population in severe material deprivation during 2017,
2018, 2019 and up to the data for September 2020 has increased but only reaches a third of the people (32%)
who are in a situation of severe material deprivation in Catalonia.
The evaluation report for this parameter presented by the Government of Catalonia, on 22 December 2020,
considers that the coverage rate of the RGC benet is 167.28% of the “estimates” that the Government itself
had made regarding the households that would request the RGC, and 54.2% of the households in a situation of
severe poverty, conclusions it reaches without bearing in mind or evaluating the Idescat data in table 5 above,
and, as a result, is very far from ensuring “the minimum necessary to live in dignity” for the “individuals or
families who are in a situation of poverty” (article 24.3 of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia) and the public
policies of the Government of Catalonia are far from ensuring “the dignity, safety and full protection of all
individuals, especially those who are most vulnerable” (article 42 of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia).
Finally, if we analyse the coverage rate data of the various similar benets that exist in other AC29 (data from
all the AC are available) regarding the total population (2019), we nd:
Table 6
2019 Coverage rate per 1000
inhabitants
Percentage
Catalonia 14.07 1.407%
Basque Country 50.42 5.042%
Chartered Community of Navarre 54.87 5.487%
Community of Madrid 13.67 1.367%
Valencian Community 8.67 0.867%
Aragon 23.89 2.389%
Castilla-La Mancha 5.04 0.504%
Andalusia 8.98 0.898%
Extremadura 18.86 1.886%
Principality of Asturias 34.04 3.404%
(Compiled by the author from the cited source. Data from all the AC are available, but those chosen seem sufcient for
illustrative purposes).
The RGC benet of Catalonia has a lower coverage rate, regarding the whole population, than the equivalent
benefits of the Basque Country, the Chartered Community of Navarre, Aragon, Extremadura and the
Principality of Asturias, which are the AC that proportionally allocated more money from their budgets, as
has been seen previously.
29 Source: see footnote number 3.
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6 Immediate future perspectives and coordination of the AC social protection benets with
the non-contributory pension of the Spanish State Social Security system, the IMV
The Government of Spain, by Royal Decree-Law 20/2020,30 of 29 May, created and regulated the IMV
benet,31 with the same purpose as the social protection benets of the AC —to guarantee the minimum
necessary to live in dignity (article 1 Royal Decree-Law 20/2020)— and also shares with these benets some
dening elements of its legal nature as a subjective right (article 2 paragraph 1 Royal Decree-Law 20/2020)
to a periodic economic benet, if access requirements are met, although in others they diverge, particularly
regarding the economic amount and the nature of the provision of the minimum necessary of the IMV and
the complementary nature of the AC benets.
What we are interested in highlighting now is, rst, what differentiates the IMV from the AC economic
benets and, at the same time, what makes them compatible, so they must be coordinated (rst transitional
provision, paragraph 13 Royal Decree-Law 20/2020) and, secondly, who has the competence32 to manage
the IMV, particularly with reference to Catalonia. Regarding the differences and the compatibility between
the IMV and the AC benets, it must be stated that the IMV is a minimum economic benet compatible with
the similar benets that already exist in the AC (article 2 paragraph 2 Royal Decree-Law 20/2020), so the
beneciaries of the AC benets can receive the IMV (article 7.1. letter c Royal Decree-Law 20/2020), if they
meet the requirements, and maintain, if appropriate, the right to receive the AC benet.
The requirements to access the IMV are, in general, the same as those required to access the AC economic
benets (age, minimum length of legal residence, denition of what is considered a family and household unit
and lack of economic resources bearing in mind an economic limit over which there is no right to the benet),
although the specic contents of each of these requirements have different regulations for the AC benets and
the IMV;33 in any case, for the purposes of this article it must be stated that most of the individuals, families
and household units that are beneciaries of the AC benets will access —should access— the IMV benet.
The difference in the amount of the various benets is also noteworthy, a difference arising from the power of
each AC to establish them and the characterisation of the IMV as a minimum benet that can be complemented
by the AC benets. The result of these diverse amounts can be seen in the table below.
Table 7
2020 Basic benet amount, 1 person Minimum vital income
(IMV), 1 person
Basque Country €693.73/month €462/month, at rate
throughout Spain
Valencian Community €665/month
Catalonia €664/month
Chartered Community of Navarre €636.73/month
Extremadura €537.84/month
30 Ratied by the Congress of Deputies on 10.06.2020 and currently being urgently processed as a bill: Proyecto de Ley por la que
se establece el ingreso mínimo vital (procedente del Real Decreto-ley 20/2020, de 29 de mayo) (121/000025).
31 Royal Decree-Law 20/2020, of 29 May, has been modied four times in the rst seven months of it coming into force to
accelerate processing and facilitate access to those in need, however, at the time of writing this article, its effective application has
been rather disappointing.
32 The Constitutional Court has analysed, from various perspectives, the question of distribution of competences in matters of
social security and social assistance. For the purposes of this paper, we must take into account Judgment 239/2002, of 11 December,
where the Court examines the competence of the AC to complement the non-contributory Spanish State benets. The Constitutional
Court states that they do not infringe upon the State’s competence because there is an internal social assistance to the Social Security
system, competence of the State, and an external social assistance to the Social Security, competence of the AC. Constitutional Court
Judgment number 146/1986, of 25 November, is also important, which examines whether the social action programmes of the State
infringe upon the competences of the AC. The Constitutional Court rejects the argument because the State has powers for public
spending in the general interest, but it must respect the distribution of competences with the AC, with the understanding that the
exclusive competence of the AC in social assistance cannot exclude the activity of the State.
33 See footnote number 3.
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2020 Basic benet amount, 1 person Minimum vital income
(IMV), 1 person
Castilla y León €500/month
Aragon €491/month
Canary Islands €486.90/month
Balearic Islands €461.50/month
Castilla-La Mancha €446.45/month
Melilla €458.64/month
Principality of Asturias €442.96/month
La Rioja €430/month
Cantabria €420/month
Andalusia €419.51/month
Murcia €403/month
Galicia €400/month
Community of Madrid €400/month
Ceuta €300/month
(Compiled by author from the data appearing on the websites of the different departments of the different Autonomous
Community governments and Royal Decree-Law 20/2020, on the minimum vital income).
This table shows that only 8 of the 19 AC (including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla) have social
protection benets of an amount greater than the IMV amount, something that may have diverse consequences
that will be subsequently analysed.
In Catalonia, the RGC is an economic benet of a subsidiary nature, beneciaries are obliged to apply for
the IMV (article 4 paragraph 2 and article 11 paragraph 2 letter b of Law 14/2017), and at the same time it
has a complementary nature regarding Spanish State pensions, benets and aid (article 4 paragraph 5 of Law
14/2017), in other words, the IMV can be accessed and at the same time there can be a right to the RGC
benet complementary to the IMV, because the amount of the RGC benet is substantially greater than that
of the IMV, as can be seen in the table below:
Table 8
2020 IMV (monthly
by 12)
RGC (monthly by
12. Depending on
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or more
members)
Monthly
difference
between RGC
and IMV
One adult €462 (1) €664 €202.0
Complement single-parent family + €101 + €100
One adult and one child €702 (2) €996 €294.0
One adult and two children €840.8 (3) €1,096 €255.2
One adult and three or more children €979.4 (4) €1,196 €216.6
Two adults €600.6 (2) €996 €395.4
Two adults and one child €739.2 (3) €1,096 €356.8
Two adults and two children €877.8 (4) €1,196 €318.2
Two adults and three or more children €1,016.4 (5) €1,208 €191.6
Three adults €739.2 (3) €1,096 €356.8
Three adults and one child €877.8 (4) €1,196 €318.2
Three adults and two or more children €1,016.4 (5) €1,208 €191.6
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2020 IMV (monthly
by 12)
RGC (monthly by
12. Depending on
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or more
members)
Monthly
difference
between RGC
and IMV
Four adults €877.8 (4) €1,196 €318.2
Four adults and one child €1,016.4 (5) €1,208 €191.6
Other €1,016.4 (5) €1,208 €191.6
(Compiled by the author from the Law 14/2017 on the guaranteed minimum income and Royal Decree-Law 20/2020
in minimum vital income. Bear in mind that the IMV uses up to 15 different parameters depending on the number of
people in the household unit and the RGC only uses 5).
Some important conclusions are drawn from tables 7 and 8 above: rst, part of the economic cost that
the benets entail for the AC will end up being covered by the Spanish State/National S ocial Security
Institute (INSS), that of the current beneciaries who also receive the IMV;34 second, the AC that have an
economic benet of a greater amount than that of the IMV must, in compliance of their own legal regulations,
economically complement the IMV up to the amount of their economic benet. Third, conversely, the AC
with an economic benet equal to or lower than that of the IMV will save the cost of their economic benet
and, nally, all the AC will be in a position to decide to allocate the current budgetary cost of their benets
(partly saved as a result of the effectiveness of the IMV in each of the AC) to improve the economic adequacy
and coverage rate of their own benet.
Regarding the competence to manage the IMV, Royal Decree-Law 20/2020 attributes this to the INSS (article
22 of Royal Decree-Law 20/2020), except for the Basque Country and Navarre, which assume the competences
and functions of the INSS (fth additional provision of Royal Decree-Law 20/2020), and without prejudice
to signing agreements with the other AC for management of the IMV (fourth additional provision of Royal
Decree-Law 20/2020).
From the start, the Government of the Generalitat has claimed the competence to manage the IMV based on
the competence set out in article 165 of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, on the competences within the
scope of the Social Security and, specically in letter e, on “recognition and management of non-contributory
pensions” and it has even publicly announced an action of unconstitutionality against Royal Decree-Law
20/2020, considering that the latter invades the former’s competences.
At the time of writing this article and during the processing of Royal Decree-Law 20/2020 as a bill, an
amendment has been presented in the Congress of Deputies,35 to expressly introduce into the law on IMV to
be approved the competence of the Generalitat of Catalonia to manage the IMV, as the Statute of Autonomy
of Catalonia has already assumed the competence of “recognition and management of non-contributory
pensions”, and for many years now the Generalitat has been managing them, although the payment comes
from the Social Security General Treasury from data provided to it by the Generalitat. The political agreement
that has enabled approval of the National General Budget Law for 2021 leads us to think that this amendment
will be approved and the Generalitat will assume the management of the IMV under the indicated conditions.
In any case, the entry into force and effectiveness of the IMV (with serious implementation problems as
occurred with the RGC) represents an opportunity to increase the amount and coverage rate of the RGC benet
because, with the understanding that the current RGC budget is maintained, or increased, the Generalitat
will save part of the economic cost it currently assumes (column 2 of table 8), which will be absorbed by the
IMV economic funds, and which could be allocated to increase the amount and expand the coverage rate of
the RGC.
34 The necessary legal coordination of the IMV with similar economic benets of the AC is expressly provided in “First transitional
provision”, paragraph 13 of RDL 20/2020, which establishes the minimum vital income.
35 On 31 December 2020 it was still at the presentation of amendments stage and, as a result, it has not been published. Who has
signed it and its specic content is not public either.
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This seems to be how the joint declaration on the IMV of the organisations that form part of the government
committee on the guaranteed minimum income,36 made on 4 June 2020, must be understood.
7 Bibliography. Analysed legal provisions
ANDALUSIA
Ley Orgánica 2/2007, de 19 de marzo, de reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía para Andalucía.
Decreto-ley 3/2017, de 19 de diciembre, por el que se regula la Renta Mínima de Inserción Social en Andalucía.
ARAGON
Ley Orgánica 5/2007, de 20 de abril, de reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía de Aragón.
Decreto 57/1994, de 23 de marzo, de la Diputación General de Aragón, por el que se regula el Ingreso Aragonés
de Inserción en desarrollo de la Ley 1/1993, de medidas básicas de inserción y normalización social.
Decreto-ley 5/2020, de 29 de junio, del Gobierno de Aragón, por el que se regula la Prestación Aragonesa
Complementaria del Ingreso Mínimo Vital y el Servicio Público Aragonés de Inclusión Social.
PRINCIPALITY OF ASTURIAS
Ley Orgánica 7/1981, de 30 de diciembre, de Estatuto de Autonomía para Asturias.
Ley 4/2005, de 28 de octubre, de Salario Social Básico.
BALEARIC ISLANDS
Llei orgànica 1/2007, de 28 de febrer, de reforma de l’Estatut d’Autonomia de les Illes Balears.
Decret llei 10/2020, de 12 de juny, de prestacions socials de caràcter econòmic de les Illes Balears.
BASQUE COUNTRY
Ley Orgánica 3/1979, de 18 de diciembre, de Estatuto de Autonomía para el País Vasco.
Ley 18/2008, de 23 de diciembre, para la Garantía de Ingresos y para la Inclusión Social.
CANARY ISLANDS
Ley Orgánica 1/2018, de 5 de noviembre, de reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía de Canarias.
Ley 1/2007, de 17 de enero, por la que se regula la prestación canaria de inserción.
CANTABRIA
Ley Orgánica 8/1981, de 30 de diciembre, de Estatuto de Autonomía para Cantabria.
Ley 2/2007, de 27 de marzo, de derechos y servicios sociales.
CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
Ley Orgánica 9/1982, de 10 de agosto, de Estatuto de Autonomía de Castilla-La Mancha.
Decreto 179/2002, de 17 de diciembre, de Desarrollo del Ingreso Mínimo de Solidaridad, Ayudas de Emergencia
Social y Prestaciones Económicas en favor de colectivos desfavorecidos, y de la colaboración y
cooperación en materia de Servicios Sociales.
36 See the Declaració conjunta de les organitzacions que formen part de la Comissió de Govern de la Renda Garantida de Ciutadania
sobre l’Ingrés Mínim Vital.
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CASTILLA Y LEÓN
Ley Orgánica 14/2007, de 30 de noviembre, de reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía de Castilla y León.
Decreto Legislativo 1/2014, de 27 de febrero, por el que se aprueba el texto refundido de las normas legales
vigentes en materia de condiciones de acceso y disfrute de la prestación esencial de renta garantizada
de ciudadanía de Castilla y León.
CATALONIA
Llei orgànica 6/2006, de 19 de juliol, de reforma de l’Estatut d’autonomia de Catalunya.
Llei 14/2017, del 20 de juliol, de la renda garantida de ciutadania.
Decret 78/2019, de 2 d’abril, de creació i regulació de la Comissió de Govern de la Renda Garantida de
Ciutadania.
Decret 55/2020, de 28 d’abril, pel qual s’aprova el Reglament de la Llei 14/2017, de 20 de juliol, de la renda
garantida de ciutadania.
CEUTA
Reglamento del Ingreso Mínimo de Inserción Social (IMIS), de 30 de septiembre de 2010.
EXTREMADURA
Ley Orgánica 1/2011, de 28 de enero, de reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía de la Comunidad Autónoma de
Extremadura.
Ley 5/2019, de 20 de febrero, de Renta Extremeña Garantizada.
GALICIA
Ley Orgánica 1/1981, de 6 de abril, de Estatuto de Autonomía para Galicia.
Ley 10/2013, de 27 de noviembre, de inclusión social de Galicia.
COMUNITY OF MADRID
Ley Orgánica 3/1983, de 25 de febrero, de Estatuto de Autonomía de la Comunidad de Madrid.
Ley 15/2001, de 27 de diciembre, de Renta Mínima de Inserción en la Comunidad de Madrid.
MELILLA
Reglamento regulador de Medidas para la Inclusión Social (IMI), Ofcial Gazette of Melilla (BOME)
27.08.2002.
MURCIA
Ley Orgánica 4/1982, de 9 de junio, de Estatuto de Autonomía para la Región de Murcia.
Ley 3/2007, de 16 de marzo, de Renta Básica de Inserción de la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia.
CHARTERED COMMUNITY OF NAVARRE
Ley Orgánica 13/1982, de 10 de agosto, de reintegración y amejoramiento del Régimen Foral de Navarra.
Ley Foral 15/2016, de 11 de noviembre, por la que se regulan los derechos a la Inclusión Social y a la Renta
Garantizada.
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LA RIOJA
Ley Orgánica 3/1982, de 9 de junio, de Estatuto de Autonomía de La Rioja.
Ley 4/2017, de 28 de abril, por la que se regula la Renta de Ciudadanía de La Rioja.
VALENCIAN COMMUNITY
Llei orgànica 1/2006, de 10 d’abril, de Reforma de la Llei orgànica 5/1982, d’1 de juliol, d’Estatut d’Autonomia
de la Comunitat Valenciana.
Llei 19/2017, de 20 de desembre, de la Generalitat, de renda valenciana d’inclusió.
SPAIN
Constitución española.
Real Decreto-ley 20/2020, de 29 de mayo, por el que se establece el ingreso mínimo vital.

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