Supplementary child allowance for those households that include minors among their members. This allowance is subject to the condition that, in the financial year immediately preceding the year of application, the eligible income is less than 300% of the amount guaranteed by the minimum living income and the net worth is less than 150% of the above-mentioned limits.
Note 1: All households that include minors among their members and are beneficiaries of the minimum living income are entitled to receive the child allowance supplement to the minimum living income.
Note 2: To apply for the supplementary child allowance, the person representing the household must apply for the Minimum Living Income. Even if they do not qualify for the Minimum Living Income.
Note 3: It may be the case that a household qualifies for the child allowance supplement, but does not qualify for Minimum Living Income. This is due to the significant difference in the respective income and wealth thresholds, which are more restrictive in the case of the Minimum Living Income.
- Age of recipients:
- Age 23 or over (general case).
- Be 18 years of age or older, in the particular case of adults or emancipated minors, when they have children or minors in foster care for the purpose of adoption or permanent family foster care.
- Household:
The household unit is made up of all persons living at the same address, whether they are married or cohabiting as a couple or in a relationship up to the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, adoption, and other persons with whom they are living by virtue of foster care for the purpose of adoption or permanent foster care..
Clarification: There are two requirements for common law couples. Firstly, registration at least two years before, and secondly, uninterrupted cohabitation for at least five years.
The benefit may be paid to persons who, without forming part of the household or forming part of an independent household, live at the same address with others with whom they have one of the aforementioned family ties. To do so, they must be in one of the following situations:
a) When a woman, a victim of gender-based violence, has left her habitual family home.
b) When, on the occasion of the commencement of separation, annulment or divorce proceedings or the dissolution of a formally constituted unmarried partnership, a person has left his or her habitual family residence.
c) When it is proven that the home has been abandoned due to eviction or because it has become uninhabitable as a result of an accident or force majeure.
In the cases foreseen in paragraphs b) and c), consideration as an independent unit shall only be applicable during the three years following the date on which the events indicated in each of them occurred.
The household must have been in existence continuously for at least six months prior to the submission of the application.
Temporary separation for reasons of study, work, medical treatment, rehabilitation or other similar circumstances is not considered to be a breach of cohabitation. The same person cannot be part of more than one household.
- Registration in the municipal register:
The address of the recipient and of all the members of his or her household must be accredited with the certificate of residence and/or cohabitation in Spain (Certificado de Padrón de residencia and/or convivencia en España).
- Legal residence:
The members of a household must have been legally and effectively resident in Spain continuously and uninterruptedly for at least the year prior to submitting the application. The one-year time limit is not required of:
● Minors incorporated into the household by birth, adoption, family reunification of sons and daughters, foster care for adoption purposes or permanent foster care.
● Victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
● Women victims of gender-based violence.
- Legal residence:
The members of a household must have been legally and effectively resident in Spain continuously and uninterruptedly for at least the year prior to submitting the application. The one-year time limit is not required of:
- Minors incorporated into the household by birth, adoption, family reunification of sons and daughters, foster care for adoption purposes or permanent foster care
- Victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation
- Women victims of gender-based violence
- Necessary documentation:
The identity, both of the applicants and of those who form the household unit, is accredited, in the case of Spanish nationals, by means of the national identity document and, in the case of foreign citizens, by means of the national identity document of their country of origin or provenance, the foreigner’s identification card or passport and, in addition, they must accredit their identity or legal residence in Spain.
- Employment status:
The benefit is compatible with work, whether salaried or self-employed, as long as the household income does not exceed the established limits. Persons of legal age or emancipated minors who are not working must be registered as job seekers.
- Income:
In order to determine the situation of economic vulnerability, the economic capacity of the household unit will be taken into consideration, calculating the resources of all its members.
The supplementary child allowance has been established for those households that include minors among their members. This allowance is subject to the condition that, in the financial year immediately preceding the year of application, the eligible income is less than 300% of the amount guaranteed by the minimum living income.
| Income threshold 2024(*) - Minimum living income child supplement | |||
| Household | Income/year | Income/month | |
| One adult and one minor | 28,277.28 € | 2,356.44 € | |
| One adult and two minors | 34,802.64 € | 2,900.22 € | |
| One adult and three minors | 41,328.36 € | 3,444.03 € | |
| One adult and more than three minors | 47,853.72 € | 3,987.81 € | |
| Two adults and one minor | 34,802.64 € | 2,900.22 € | |
| Two adults and two minors | 41,328.36 € | 3,444.03 € | |
| Two adults and more than three minors | 47,853.72 € | 3,987.81 € | |
| Three adults and one minor | 41,328.36 € | 3,444.03 € | |
| Three adults and more than three minors | 47,853.72 € | 3,987.81 € | |
| Four adults and one minor | 47,853.72 € | 3,987.81 € | |
| Other | 47,853.72 € | 3,987.81 € | |
(*) Table prepared by the authors.
- Wealth:
The recognition of the child supplement is subject to the condition that, in the financial year immediately preceding the year of application, the net wealth is less than 150% of the limits indicated by the minimum living income, provided that the limit of non-corporate assets indicated in this section is complied with.
Individual beneficiaries or persons who are part of a household in which any of its members is a legal director of a commercial company that has not ceased its activity are not considered to be in a situation of economic vulnerability, irrespective of the valuation of their assets.
| Net wealth threshold 2024(*) - Minimum living income child supplement | |
| Household | Wealth limit |
| Two people (one adult and one minor) | 45,678.27 € |
| Three people (one adult and two minors, two adults and one minor) | 58,729.20 € |
| Four people (one adult and three minors, two adults and two minors, three adults and one minor) | 71,780.14 € |
| Five or more people (one adult and more than three minors, two adults and more than two minors, three adults and more than two minors, four adults and one minor, other) | 84,831.07 € |
(*) Table prepared by the authors.
Individual beneficiaries or households who own non-corporate assets without a habitual residence for a value greater than that indicated in this table for each configuration of the household unit will be excluded from access to the minimum living income, regardless of the valuation of net wealth:
| Maximum value of wealth (excluding habitual residence) | |
| Household | Wealth limit |
| One person (a single adult) | 45,503.12 € |
| Two people (one adult and one minor, two adults) | 60,904.36 € |
| Three people (one adult and two minors, two adults and one minor, three adults) | 78,305.60 € |
| Four people (one adult and three minors, two adults and two minors, three adults and one minor, four adults) | 95,706.86 € |
| Five or more people (one adult and more than three minors, two adults and more than two minors, three adults and more than two minors, four adults and one minor, other) | 113,108.10 € |
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- Exemptions for this benefit:
The child allowance is incompatible with the financial allowance for a dependent child without disability or with a disability of less than 33%.
- Amount and frequency:
A monthly child allowance supplement is paid for each minor in the household (on the date of application) according to the full age on 1 January of the corresponding financial year, in accordance with the following ranges:
• Children under the age of three: 115 euros.
• Over three and under six years of age: 80.50 euros.
• Over six and under eighteen years of age: 57.50 euros.
For the purpose of determining the amount, children or minors or adults with judicially established support measures for decision-making who form part of different family units in cases of judicially established shared custody are considered to form part of the unit in which they reside.