Ending the "culture of dependency" and "rewarding a culture of hard work" is one of the proposals in Junts' plan to rebuild the middle class, which it believes is on the verge of disappearing. The party proposed the special plenary session that began this Tuesday, where it outlined a complete overhaul of the current subsidy model, reformulating and significantly limiting the guaranteed minimum income, which was approved in July 2017 by the government led by Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras. This also indirectly represents an amendment to the Spanish minimum living income model. Junts members demand that a "culture of work" prevail in the definition of public policies and, therefore, call for a "reorganization of the system of aid and subsidies." The way to do this is to directly link the guaranteed minimum income to labor market activation, that is, to job seeking. "Benefits for people capable of working should be temporary and linked to training and effective job placement," they emphasize in their proposals. In this regard, they advocate "strengthening active employment policies connected to the productive sector so that aid becomes an instrument of autonomy and not dependency." Thus, coordination between the Catalan Public Employment Service (SOC) and the guaranteed minimum income benefit would become an absolute necessity. This, according to Junts sources, is a "complete change" to move from benefits for barely surviving to a labor-focused approach aimed at guiding people towards "decent work." Junts' idea is that unconditional guaranteed minimum income benefits should be exclusively for people unable to work, such as those with disabilities, while the vast majority should have a work-oriented approach. This proposal is reminiscent of unemployment benefits received when one is entitled to unemployment benefits, although these are the exclusive responsibility of the State.

In one year, in 2026, the Generalitat will open a one-stop shop to manage both the minimum vital income (IMV), the benefit created by the Spanish government during the pandemic, and the Catalan guaranteed citizen income (RGC). But after the summer, the new virtual platform will be launched to handle the files for this last benefit. The Minister of Social Rights and Inclusion, Mònica Martínez Bravo, has announced that today, her department is working on technical issues so that people who have the right to collect these social benefits have to suffer less paperwork and less bureaucracy.

The Catalan Auditor has published a devastating report about the failure in the management of guaranteed minimum income, a scheme approved four years ago which was held up as a breakthrough in the fight against poverty. Instead, the report points out that it has only reached a fraction of the population that entitled to it. "It can be concluded that the law of guaranteed income has been insufficient to ensure a decent life for people who were in poverty," the Auditor concludes. The number of incompatibilities that were included meant that of the 90,000 applications submitted in 2018, 60,000 were rejected outright. But of the 30,000 that were initially approved, only 13,500 received any aid. The rest were left for the following year.