The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration is a department of the

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responsible for planning and carrying out the government policy on

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, foreigners,

immigration Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

and

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. The Ministry's purpose is to guarantee a sufficient and sustainable

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, to establish new inclusive policies that reduce inequality, uncertainty and social exclusion and to develop a new legal framework to order and give security for migrants. The major policy planned by the ministry is to establish and manage a 'vital minimum income'. The department was created by

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Pedro Sánchez Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having pr ...

as part of the

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and it took on some of the responsibilities of the Ministry of Labour, Migrations and Social Security; as well as the responsibilities of the

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in civil servants' pensions. It is overseen by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, currently

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, who was appointed on 13 January 2020.

Structure

This Ministry is structured in the following higher bodies: * The Secretariat of State for Social Security and Pensions ** The Directorate-General for Social Security Management ** The

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*The Secretariat of State for Migration ** The Directorate-General for Migration ** The Directorate-General for Humanitarian Attention and Social Inclusion of Immigrants ** The Directorate-General for the Management of the International and Temporary Protection Reception System **The Deputy Directorate-General for Migration Analysis **The Deputy Directorate-General for Economic Management and European Funds **The Deputy Directorate-General for Legal Regime * The General Secretariat for Objectives and Policies of Social Inclusion and Forecast **The Deputy Directorate-General for Inclusion Objectives and Indicators **The Deputy Directorate-General for Inclusion Policies * The Undersecretariat ** The Technical General Secretariat

Agencies

* The National Institute for Social Security * The Social Institute for Sea Workers * The Social Security General Treasury * The Social Security IT Department * The Legal Service of the Social Security Administration * The Permanent Observatory of Immigration

List of officeholders

Office name: *Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration (2020–present)

References

Ministries established in 2020 2020 establishments in Spain

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