The preparation of files regarding social assistance aims to provide financial support to single persons or families consisting of husband, wife, or husband, wife, and their unmarried children who are under their care, living and managing together. Siblings without children, who manage together and do not have a residence or domicile, 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 ensured by A.J.P.I.S Alba, from the budget of the Ministry of Labor and Social Justice.
For amounts granted as social assistance, one of the able-bodied adult members of the family must perform, every month, activities or works of local interest, for all family members, without exceeding the normal working regime; failure to fulfill this obligation leads to the suspension of social assistance, and if this obligation is not fulfilled within 3 months from the suspension, the payment of social assistance ceases.