The preparation of social assistance files aims to provide financial support to a single person or a family consisting of husband, wife, or husband, wife and their unmarried children, who are in their care, living, and managing their household together. Siblings without children who manage their household together and who do not have a domicile or residence are also considered a family.
Social assistance is granted monthly, supplementing the net monthly income of the family or single person, to ensure the guaranteed minimum income. The payment of social assistance is provided by A.J.P.I.S Alba, from the budget of the Ministry of Labor and Social Justice.
For the amounts granted as social assistance, one of the adult family members fit for work must perform, monthly, actions or works of local interest for all family members, without exceeding the normal working schedule; failure to fulfill this obligation leads to the suspension of social assistance, and if this obligation is not fulfilled within 3 months from suspension, the payment of social assistance ceases.