Another slap on the Ombudsman’s wrist to the Ministry of Equality and Inclusive Policies. Ángel Luna blames the department headed by Aitana Mas for ignoring her advice and insisting on rejecting it. Valencia Participation Income To people who meet all the requirements to get an (RVI). Likewise, the regional ombudsman argues that this benefit will not deter job seeking, as he criticizes the lack of assistance for hours or days on precarious job seekers. It is argued from the Ministry that the supplementary method of income from work has not yet been implemented with the approval and enactment of the state regulation that will develop the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) provision attached to the Ministry. Include, still pending. .
complaint ombudsman Emphasizes that Equality does not accept proposals to positively resolve RVI files once the maximum legal period of six months has been exceeded. “Aid is denied to applicants who meet the requirements when they request it and for the maximum amount of time the Department has to resolve,” says Luna. The district ombudsman is excluded from the approval of this assistance if, “Due to the unacceptable delay of the administration, when it finally decides, in some cases with a delay of a year, the citizen finds a job, the possibility of receiving the assistance corresponding to the months in which he fulfills the conditions”.
ex officio complaint
Given this situation and the large number of claims coming in, the presiding agency Moon He closed his complaint, which he filed ex officio last October, because he felt that deprivation of RVI of persons who had worked for a short period of time was “injustice” and could be “infringement of their rights” regardless of the risk involved. to discourage job seeking for fear of running out of benefits. Luna urged Equality to positively resolve RVI files after the maximum time has passed.
The Ombudsman points out that there are some “significant delays” that are the source of the problem, with Equity failing to take action to meet the agency’s recommendations to address delays in resolving assistance. the problem being investigated. In this context, the regional ombudsman draws attention to the fact that “the only thing that the ministry put forward is to work to resolve the cases within the legally determined time” and rejects the request for approval of their RVIs.
«Igualdad understands that, at the time of the decision, the requester cannot access the RVI in warranty methods while the person is working and only additional income method This is an impossible work,” stresses the Ombudsman, as this method has not yet been implemented.
Meeting
At the request of the Equality Section, councilThe Ministry of Inclusion will meet with representatives of Valencia next Monday to discuss the change in regulations and regulate IMV’s compliance with business income or income from self-employed economic activities. The ministry further asserts that the Ombudsman’s requests responded to four cases of approximately 75,500 recipients of one of the RVI methods.
Inside equalityLikewise, they note that social services offer assistance in the income process to those in need and ensure that the RVI does not hinder job seeking among buyers as social and workforce addition routes are encouraged.
accused of obstructing the investigation
When Aitana Mas became head of Equality in June of last year, it was one of her first meetings with the Ombudsman to restore relations that had seriously deteriorated during the Mónica Oltra phase. This goal does not appear to have been achieved, as Ángel Luna arrived in January to accuse the Ministry of obstructing one of its investigations and complained of a lack of cooperation.