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C. MINIMUM INCLUSION INCOME

(According to Law No. 196/2016)

Information regarding the granting of minimum inclusion income (VMI)

Legislative framework

– provisions of Law No. 196/2016, regarding minimum inclusion income, with subsequent amendments and completions;
– provisions of O.U.G No.114/2022, for amending and supplementing Law No.196/2016 regarding minimum inclusion income, with subsequent amendments and completions;
– provisions of H.G No. 1154/2022, for approving the methodological norms for the application of Law No.196/2016 provisions regarding minimum inclusion income, with subsequent amendments and completions;
Thus, minimum inclusion income (VMI) is instituted, representing financial support provided by the state to ensure a minimal standard of living for families and single persons in difficulty, as well as for preventing the risk of poverty among children and stimulating their participation in the education system.
Minimum inclusion income consists of one or more of the following categories of financial aid:
a) inclusion aid;
b) aid for families with children.

Depending on the needs of the family/single person, minimum inclusion income is accompanied by other complementary social assistance measures, granted in cash and/or in kind, as follows:
– incentives – special measures to stimulate participation in the labor market, granted in cash or as income deductions for the person;
– contributory facilities – inclusion in the health social insurance system, without paying the health insurance contribution;
– other complementary rights – financial transfers and/or support in kind, aimed at facilitating social inclusion and preventing the risk of social exclusion, granted to beneficiaries of minimum inclusion income or to other categories in special situations, consisting, as appropriate, of:
(i) payment of mandatory housing insurance against earthquakes, landslides, and floods;
(ii) granting community and emergency aids intended to support the family/single person in overcoming temporary difficulty situations and preventing or reducing the risk of poverty and social exclusion;
(iii) access to financial support measures for promoting and supporting attendance at educational courses, organized under the law by minimum inclusion income beneficiaries;
(iv) measures to stimulate employment, as well as other measures leading to access of minimum inclusion income beneficiaries to a workplace;
(v) access to available social services, depending on needs identified to overcome difficulty situations.

Beneficiaries

VMI is constituted from the total amounts of financial aid provided in art.3 para.(2) of the law, which are established according to the classification in monthly adjusted income realized by the family within the following limits:

1. for inclusion aid, up to an adjusted net monthly income of 346 lei inclusive, which is considered in calculating the family's cumulative income;

2. for inclusion aid, up to an adjusted net monthly income of 504 lei inclusive, which is considered in calculating the income of single persons aged at least 65 years;

3. for aid for families with children, up to an adjusted net monthly income of 880 lei inclusive.

In this regard, new concepts have emerged, such as: equivalence coefficient (1 for the single person and for the legal representative of the family), family size (the sum of the equivalence coefficient for the family representative = 1 + 0.5 for each family member) and adjusted net monthly income (obtained by dividing the family’s total net income in the month before the request by family size), for calculating the granting threshold and the amounts provided as inclusion aid or aid for families with children.

Amounts granted

The amount granted monthly as inclusion aid will be maximum:
– 346 lei, for a single person with no income;
– 504 lei, for a single person aged at least 65 years, with no income;
– 519 lei, for a family composed of two persons (346lei * 1.5 family size);
– 692 lei, for a family composed of three persons (346lei * 2 family size);
– 865 lei, for a family composed of four persons (346lei * 2.5 family size);
– 1038 lei, for a family composed of five persons (346lei * 3 family size);

The amount granted as aid for families with children is established depending on the level of adjusted net monthly income and the number of children in the family, as follows:
1. For families with adjusted net monthly income up to 346 lei/month, the monthly amount of aid for families with children is:
– 135 lei, for families with one child;
– 270 lei, for families with 2 children;
– 405 lei, for families with 3 children;
– 539 lei, for families with 4 children or more.

2. For single-parent families with adjusted net monthly income up to 346 lei/month, the monthly amount of aid for families with children is:
– 153 lei, for families with one child;
– 303 lei, for families with 2 children;
– 453 lei, for families with 3 children;
– 604 lei, for families with 4 children or more.

3. For families with adjusted net monthly income between 348 lei/month and 880 lei inclusive, the monthly amount of aid for families with children is:
– 108 lei, for families with one child;
– 215 lei, for families with 2 children;
– 322 lei, for families with 3 children;
– 428 lei, for families with 4 children or more.

4. For single-parent families with adjusted net monthly income between 348 lei/month and 880 lei inclusive, the monthly amount of aid for families with children is:
– 140 lei, for families with one child;
– 271 lei, for families with 2 children;
– 409 lei, for families with 3 children;
– 541 lei, for families with 4 children or more.

*If the calculation results in an amount less than 63 lei, then 63 lei is granted.

Details:
For calculating the adjusted net monthly income, all amounts received/earned by the single person or each family member in the month before applying for VMI are taken into account, except for the following incomes:
a. amounts received as social benefits under Law No.448/2006 regarding the protection and promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities, republished with subsequent modifications and completions;
b. state allowance for children granted under Law No.61/1993 regarding the state allowance for children, republished, with subsequent amendments;
c. amounts granted as scholarships or other forms of financial support intended exclusively for supporting the education of preschoolers, pupils, and students, through programs of the Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research, other public and private institutions, including non-governmental organizations;
d. amounts received from activities carried out as day laborer, according to Law No.52/2011 regarding certain activities performed by day laborers, republished with subsequent amendments and completions, as well as those obtained as a domestic worker under Law No.111/2022 regarding regulation of domestic worker activity;
e. amounts received by employable persons in the family from participation in professional training programs organized under the law, if they are not salary income;
f. amounts received occasionally from individuals or legal entities, as well as emergency aid received from the state or local budget;
g. educational incentive granted according to Law No.248/2015 regarding stimulating preschool attendance for children from disadvantaged families, republished, as a social voucher for stimulating preschool attendance for children from disadvantaged families;
h. occasional amounts granted from the state or local budgets as compensation or financial support for exceptional situations;
i. home heating aid and energy supplement granted under Law No.226/2021, with subsequent amendments;
j. monthly food indemnity granted under Law No.584/2002 regarding the prevention of the spread of AIDS in Romania and protection of persons infected with HIV or suffering from AIDS, with subsequent amendments and completions, and monthly food indemnity under Law No.302/2018 regarding tuberculosis control measures;
k. amounts received as support, provided from the state budget or non-refundable funds, granted under the law or based on approved operational programs.

Required documents

Minimum inclusion income (VMI) is granted based on a single request made by the applicant accompanied by supporting documents.
– Standard VMI application form, which contains information about the applicant and the family composition; download application
– Agreement regarding personal data processing; download agreement
– Declaration on own responsibility; download declaration, and as appropriate download declaration 2 , download declaration 3

– Payment commitment (for situations where undue rights may be detected); download commitment;
– The identity document of the applicant and family members (ID card, birth certificate);
– Income certificates for all income sources;
– Death certificate for any deceased family member;
– Proof of schooling for children aged between 3 and 16 years;
– Other documents specific to the applicant's/ beneficiary's situation:
a. contract regarding possession of the property where they live;
b. utility bills;
c. marriage certificate, as appropriate;
d. court decision for entrustment/adoption approval, according to the law;
e. court decision or, as appropriate, decision of the child protection commission regarding placement measure, according to the law;
f. court decision for temporary delegation of parental authority to the designated person, according to the provisions of art.104 and art.105 of Law No.272/2004 on protection and promotion of children's rights, republished with subsequent amendments and completions;
g. decision of the general director of the general directorate of social assistance and child protection or, as appropriate, court decision for emergency placement measure, according to the law;
h. court decision for establishing guardianship or, as appropriate, decision of the tutelary authority, according to the law;
i. supporting document attesting legal representative status for a minor deprived of full capacity to exercise civil rights, i.e. parent, guardian, curator, another person designated legal representative by the decision of the general director of the general directorate of social assistance and child protection or, as applicable, by court decision;
j. court decision declaring the spouse as missing;
k. court decision whereby the spouse is arrested/preventively detained for more than 30 days or serving a custodial sentence and does not contribute to child maintenance;
l. as appropriate, other supporting documents regarding family composition.
Family composition, child filiation, and their legal status regarding the legal representative will be checked/validated by the staff of the Social Protection Service by field verification and/or through SNIAS.

Assets leading to exclusion from VMI

The entitlement to minimum inclusion income is established taking into account family assets, or, as applicable, those of the single person, included in the List of assets leading to exclusion from minimum inclusion income. The list can be consulted below.

LIST of assets leading to exclusion from minimum inclusion income
A. Immovable assets
Buildings, other living spaces outside the home of residence, as well as land located in the urban area with surfaces over 1,200 sq.m in urban areas and 2,500 sq.m in rural areas, except for fenced land of the home and its yard.

1. Movable assets
1. More than one vehicle older than 10 years, with right to travel on public roads;
2. Vehicle with right to travel on public roads less than 10 years old, except for those used and/or adapted for transporting persons with disabilities;
3. Motorboats, boats, yachts, or other types of vessels, except those needed for transportation for people living in the “Danube Delta” Biosphere Reserve area;

NOTE:
If one or more assets owned by the single person/family benefiting from minimum inclusion income is leased/rented/concessioned, this asset will be considered for the person/family renting it, and for the rightful owner, the value obtained by transferring the right of use will be considered.
The person or family who owns besides the home of residence a share of another building/living space/property can benefit from minimum inclusion income regardless of the share size if this possession does not allow value realization of the respective asset.

1. Bank deposits
At least one family member holds, as a titular, one or more bank accounts/deposits, the total amount of which is more than three times the gross average salary value provided by the State Social Insurance Law. (Currently, the value is 6095*3=18285 lei)

Obligations of the holder

The minimum inclusion income holder has the obligation to notify the city hall where they have their residence or domicile of any change regarding domicile, income, and number of family members within a maximum 10 days from the date the change occurred.
Single persons and families benefiting from minimum inclusion income have the obligation to submit to city hall, every 6 months, a declaration on their own responsibility regarding occurred changes, accompanied by supporting documents, as appropriate.

Persons able to work who do not earn income based on an individual labor contract, service report or other legal forms of employment, nor from independent or agricultural activities as defined by Law No.227/2015, with subsequent amendments and completions, have the obligation to appear at the territorial agency for workforce placement in whose records they are registered as persons seeking a job, as often as they are requested, for employment or participation in workforce stimulation and professional training services.

In the case of single persons and families benefiting from minimum inclusion income consisting exclusively of aid for families with children, the obligation above does not apply.

For families benefiting from minimum inclusion income that includes the inclusion aid component, one of the adult persons able to work in the respective family has the obligation to perform monthly, at the mayor's request, activities or works of local interest, respecting normal working time and occupational safety and health norms.

Exceptionally, families for which the inclusion aid is up to 63 lei. For these, working hours are established quarterly and are performed in any of the quarter’s months.