Last Friday, the journalist Susanna Griso and the Vox candidate for the Community of Madrid, Rocío Monastery: Menas (best unaccompanied foreigners).Griso tried to stop the feet of Monastery pointing out that unaccompanied foreign minors "are on the street without being able to work" and "without being able to study because they have no papers".

He also pointed to Vox's policy for treating these children no less than as "animals", to which Monastery replied: who treated as an "animal" went to a girl sexually assaulted by 13 boys in the park of the west of westMadrid on April 4.Four of the detainees were minors and foreigners.Monastery, in addition, said in the Griso program that each Mena costs the Community of Madrid 4.700 euros.

The famous "Paguita", as Vox calls the aids that the Menas and Exmennas are supposedly received, is once again a controversial issue on which statements and speculation are launched, often without foundation.The statistics on the total cost of the Menas to the public coffers is complicated to establish, more when the number of these minors that Spain welcomes is not known, according to the Ombudsman in May in May 2020.

The only and most recent data available are from 2019 in the MENA Registry of the Ministry of Interior and show that there would be around 12.300 foreign minors traveling through Spain.The figure, however, is far from reflecting reality.

The Spanish has collected all the financial and social aid that unaccompanied minors - both foreigners as Spaniards - receive in Spain by Autonomous Community, as well as those given once they turn 18 to be able to emancipate.In general terms, there are no economic benefits to Menas while these are minors, beyond small assignments for their ordinary expenses.From the age of majority, almost all autonomous communities assign the minimum income established for vulnerable persons in each territory, advancing their age requirements (usually it can be received from 23 or 25 years).This rent ranges from 400 to 700 euros depending on each place and to access it you have to meet certain requirements:

Madrid's community

According to data from the Ministry of Social and Family Policies, the Menas as such do not receive any specific economic aid, rather than the reception in special centers.Once they become extined, when they turn 18, the community partially finances the transit program, aimed at exmenas between the ages of 18 and 21 to help them integrate into society.The program has 102 places with accommodation and maintenance and half of each place is paid with public funds.In addition to this program, Madrid also serves young people annually at serious risk of social exclusion to insert them socially and labor.

On the other hand, Decree 126/2014 of November 20 approved the Regulation of the Minimum Insertion Income in the Community of Madrid established by the youths guarded can request the perception of the RMI four months before the fulfillment of the age of majority,which will allow the protective action to cease and have to abandon the residence, they can count on an economic contribution.This rent is 400 euros for a single person without income in Madrid.

Catalonia

Dependents of the Department of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of the Generalitat, the exmennas receive a specific pay of 664 euros from 18 to 23 years.This amount is subject to training and justification for not having means to live.The measure was approved by all political groups, modifying article 19 of the Social Benefits Law.From the age of 23, the exmenas can aspire to the guaranteed income of citizenship, which in Catalonia amounts to 423 euros.It is charged up to 12 months, which can be extended up to 60.

Navarre

The subdirection of family and minors of the Regional Community indicates that the Menas receive family or residential care, as well as the coverage of their needs when they are minors.From the age of 18 and until 21 there is an autonomy program, in which they receive a pay between 640 and 650 euros per month with educational resources and accompaniment.From 21, they receive an economic benefit of 548 euros until they can be candidates to receive guaranteed income (the same amount), for which a minimum of 25 years must be.

Balearics

The Ministry of Socials I Esports gives an aid to the emancipation of 430.27 euros for 36 months or up to 25 years.It also provides places in bedroom centers and, as in the rest of the communities, there is a minimum insertion income that, to be likely to receive it, the exmenas have to meet the following requirements: having resided three years on the islands and carryingtwo registered.The minimum rent in the islands is 426 euros for six months.

Valencian Community

The Ministry of Equality and Inclusive Policies gives to the menas residential foster care, covers its health, educational, food, as well as clothing, more a weekly assignment for its own expenses, whose value is “symbolic”, according to the department.On the other hand, in the case of the minors guarded in families are these that manage the subsidy that the Generalitat distributes, which ranges from 450 euros per month to 1125 euros if it is an emergency foster care.

Before they are likely to collect the Valencian Inclusion Income (338 euros), at the age of 25, there is an emancipation program, with a network of homes and economic benefits comparable to social salary.

Andalusia

The Ministry of Equality, Social Policies and Conciliation points out that in Andalusia there are no direct financial aid for tuned or extined orenas, beyond those destined for the population in vulnerability, such as the minimum income, the aid to housing, to theEmployment ... The minimum Andalusian social insertion has an amount of 420 euros per month and charges for 12 months.

Cantabria

The Ministry of Employment and Social Policies has a specialized network for the foster care for men over 12 years, with first and second reception centers and "moderate socialization".This means that young people interact more with their neighborhoods.This system can be extended after the age of major.

On the other hand, in Cantabria there is also the support program for the life project, which can be accepted until 25 even if they do not study.The program provides for a monthly economic benefit linked to a work plan established jointly with the tutor assigned to the young man.This benefit can be compatible with other financial aid, as long as the basic social income (426 euros) is not exceeded for a person, six months extendable from six in six and at most until 23 years.

Economic aid is also given to reception families and for the expenses of minors, with a minimum of 5 euros per week.

The Rioja

The Social Services Ministry provides family or residential foster care for minors, in addition to covering their needs and giving them pocket money, whose amount is determined according to their age.There is also a "preparation program for independent life" since they fulfill the age of majority.At that time, residential foster care can also be extended and they receive citizenship income of 399 euros between 6 and 24 months.The particularity is that to receive it, they are not required prior residence periods in The Rioja, and they are also allowed to access from the age of 16 without demanding that they constitute a family or coexistence unit.

Aragon

The Department of Citizenship and Social Rights gives residential foster care and a benefit to cover specific attention expenses (glasses, dentist, therapies, clothing, trips, etc....).The rest of the aid are the universal social aid in Aragon, such as Aragonese insertion income, 441 euros.

Castilla la Mancha

In addition to the aid to families that host protected minors, there is no record of specific economic benefits for men or exmenas.The Ministry of Social Welfare is responsible for the minimum solidarity income of 420 euros per month that the extremes can request.

Castilla y León

Swinds over 18 can request the guaranteed income of citizenship (they are exempt from the requirement of being over 25 years old).In addition, the minors guarded have covered all their needs by the administration (food, education, clothing, leisure and free time ...).

Galicia

The Social Policy Department indicates that “all necessary material goods” are covered by the minors, as well as they are given comprehensive care that extends beyond the majority of age with the incorporation of these minors to actions to improveemployability and labor insertion.

In Galicia there are no direct or specific aids although the Xunta requests all the aids that can access for their circumstances.When they cease to be minors, they can benefit from the social inclusion income of Galicia, 399 euros for 12 months.

Asturias

The Ministry of Social Rights and Welfare reports that in Asturias there are no specific aids and that the exmenas are included in the umbrella of the basic social salary, of 442 euros without time limit.

Ceuta

The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality indicates that the aid to guardianships are translated into family and centers, as well as in minimal weekly payments for their ordinary expenses.

When they turn 18, there is an accompaniment program that implies, among other resources, a floor for exmennas with six places.They also have the possibility of accessing the minimum social insertion income (variable) if they have been guarded by the Autonomous City and have an absolute orphanage situation, from 18 to 25 years (variable and 12 months extendable)

Melilla

There is no specific help for Menas and extined can request the Melillense Integration income, which starts from a minimum of 420 euros and can reach up to 707 euros.

Murcia region

The Ministry of Women, Equality, LGTBI, Families and Social Policy indicates that the minors "do not receive financial aid or during guardianship or after they stop being guarded".

On the other hand, the extremes have the right to the basic insertion income (300 euros for 121 months) provided that they meet the required requirements: be between 18 and 25 years, to be extined, be an absolute or serious orphanage situation of serious or serious exclusionsocial participating in integration programs).

Estremadura

The Ministry of Health and Social Services provides minor foster care in centers and families, to which it gives € 151.52 euros per month to which half of the amount are added if they have any disability).This foster care is up to 18, expandable at 21 whenever they do not work with a salary of more than 75% of the minimum interprofessional salary.

The exturated ones are likely to receive the guaranteed extreme income since the age of 18, consisting of 537.84 euros per month for one year, extendable subject to requirements and evaluations of the Social Service.They also have the employability of 16 to 25 years for companies.

Canary Islands

The General Directorate of Social Policies reports that, in addition to the reception in centers, minors have a small allocation for their expenses that go from 10 to 15 euros a week.Extured can receive the Canarian insertion benefit if they have been under guardianship in the Canary Islands.This help reaches 472 euros.

Basque Country

In the Basque Country there is no record of any direct aid to unaccompanied foreign minors.From the age of majority, they can access the income guarantee rental that is 665 euros per month in the community, one of the highest in Spain.

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