Benidorm prepares a new line of aid aimed at commerce to minimize the rise in energy

Benidorm City Council is preparing a new call for aid to minimize the rise in energy, in this case, aimed at commerce, as announced today by the Councilor for Employment and Local Promotion, Mónica Gómez. It is an aid for SMEs, micro-SMEs, freelancers and mutual insurances that can reach up to 1,000 euros and that will be financed entirely with funds from the Alicante Provincial Council, which has given the City Council a grant of 292,491 euros.

Gómez explained that "since March 2020, due to the outbreak of the pandemic, the City Council has been articulating aid to the productive fabric, attending at all times to the sectors that most needed it". "With the tourist reactivation that we have been able to observe in recent months -he added-, a good part of the sectors directly or indirectly linked to tourism are having an economic activity similar to that of 2019, but at this precise moment it is costing trade a little more to reach these numbers”.

For this reason, "this local government team has decided that it is time to attend to the business of our city" which, like the whole families and the productive fabric of Spain, is suffering the negative effects of inflation and energy costs that are They have been at record highs for more than a year.

At this point, Gómez recalled that "with this call, there are already three lines of aid promoted by the City Council in the last year to deal with the increase in energy prices." The first, she has detailed, "was launched in August last year, an extraordinary benefit of 150 euros was given to the beneficiaries of the 2021 family aid to cover, among others, the expenses derived from the increase in the bill of the light". This aid reached 1,866 homes in Benidorm.

The second aid to minimize the rise in energy costs "has also been aimed at serving the population, in this case, people over 65 years of age, and is currently being processed." The third aid, the one announced today, "we are going to direct it to the productive fabric, specifically to trade." To these direct aids have been added "programs and campaigns such as 'Luce Benidorm'".

The councillor has advanced that work is already being done on the bases of these grants and that "in the next few days the specific profiles and headings of the businesses with fiscal domicile in Benidorm that can participate in the call will be outlined", as well as the types of expenses that can be justified, the percentage of those invoices that can be financed and the deadlines and form of presentation.

Gómez has highlighted that "the will of the government team is to continue supporting the productive fabric of Benidorm and to do it as before, with planning and taking into account the circumstances and needs of each sector at each moment". "We are probably the City Council of Spain that has mobilized the most resources to serve companies, freelancers and families and that will continue to be our line of action", concluded the mayor.