Design and Operation of a Cash Transfer Program: Renta Garantizada de Ciudadanía in the City of Valencia, Spain

Abstract

Since it became a law, the Renta Garantizada de Ciudadanía of the Valencian Community has become a right demandable by the citizens. As it is showed in this article, its characteristics coincide with a Minimum Income of Insertion program, which means it is not individual and universal, but addressed to a specific group of people that meet certain characteristics. This text shows empirical evidence of ethnography obtained from in-depth interviews carried out with diverse social actors about the operative difficulties of the program, such as poor planning and lack of resources from the Generalitat and the city council, which caused the delivery of money in a single installment after a year of waiting, making the results of the program have minor impacts on beneficiaries.