El nuevo ingreso mínimo vital estatal: régimen jurídico y retos pendientes

The minimum living income, regulated by the recent RDL 20/2020, is a new benefit of the Social Security system aimed at people in a situation of economic vulnerability; thus influencing an area that, until now, had been left to the Autonomous Communities through the minimum insertion income. This new benefit, of great social relevance, raises, however, some questions, such as its necessary and effective coordination with the autonomous minimum incomes and the aid provided by local entities, the scarce importance given to the labour insertion measures of its beneficiaries, the control of the underground economy or the economic impact that it may have on a Social Security system lacking in resources. We are also faced with a benefit that represents a change in the logic that the Social Security system has followed over the last 30 years, by clearly extending its non-contributory side. It remains to be seen how it will evolve in the future