The minimum living income household in 2026
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Enter the adults and children in your household: the tool gives the previous year’s income ceiling above which there is no IMV.
Highest income in the previous year
€16,606
above it there is no minimum income (the child supplement may still apply)
| Household members | 4 |
| Monthly guaranteed income | €1,394 |
| Highest net wealth | €58,101 |
| Highest income for the child supplement | €50,178 |
Everyone living at the address who is married, a registered partner or related up to the second degree counts.
Prepared by Radif Partners · Method · Rules read in the BOE and on the Social Security site on 1 November 2026
Spain’s minimum living income is worked out per household (unidad de convivencia), not per person: everyone living at the same address who is linked by marriage, registered partnership or kinship up to the second degree, by blood, marriage or adoption, plus children in permanent foster care or pre-adoptive custody. Parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, siblings and parents-in-law count; uncles, nephews and cousins do not, and neither does an unrelated flatmate. A person can belong to only one household, and being away for a while to study, work or receive treatment does not break it. The law lets someone form their own household inside a home shared with family in three cases: a woman who is a victim of gender violence and has left her home, someone who has started a separation or divorce, and someone who lost their home through eviction or because it became uninhabitable; in the last two, for three years only. The size of the household sets the guaranteed income and therefore the income ceiling: a couple with two children loses the IMV if they earned €16,606.08 or more in 2025.
Who is in and who is out
Article 6 of Law 19/2021 defines the household by two conditions at once: living at the same address and being linked by marriage, registered partnership or kinship up to the second degree. The address is shown with the padrón register. Someone temporarily away to study, work, or for treatment or rehabilitation stays in. The rule that nobody can belong to two households settles shared-custody cases: the child counts where they are domiciled.
| Relative | Degree | Same household? |
|---|---|---|
| Spouse or registered partner | - | Yes |
| Parents and children | 1 | Yes |
| Parents-in-law, children-in-law | 1 | Yes |
| Grandparents, grandchildren, siblings | 2 | Yes |
| Siblings-in-law | 2 | Yes |
| Uncles, nephews, cousins | 3-4 | No |
| Flatmates | - | No |
Separate households under one roof
Article 7 creates three exceptions for people who have to move back into a family home. A woman who is a victim of gender violence and leaves her home, with or without her children, forms her own household even if she lives with her parents. So does someone who has started separation, annulment or divorce proceedings, or dissolved a formal partnership, and someone who left their home through eviction or because an accident or force majeure made it uninhabitable. In those last two cases the separate household lasts three years from the event.
For the IMV the difference is large. A separated mother with one child who moves back in with her parents would form a household of four with them, with an income ceiling of €16,606 that includes the grandparents’ pensions. As a separate household her ceiling is €13,261 and only her own income counts.
The income ceiling for your household
Highest income in the previous year
€16,606
| Household members | 4 |
| Monthly guaranteed income | €1,394 |
| Highest net wealth | €58,101 |
| Highest income for the child supplement | €50,178 |
When the household changes
A birth, a wedding, a relative moving in or an adult child moving out changes the household and with it the amount. It must be reported within 30 days, and the new amount applies from the month after the change if reported on time. If a member leaves, those who stay do not need to wait six months to keep being paid. The exact scale for each size is on the amounts page and the rules on how long the household must have existed on the eligibility page.