Friday the 30th is the deadline to request aid of up to 1,000 euros to minimize the impact of the rise in energy

This coming Friday, September 30, is the deadline for SMEs, micro-SMEs and the self-employed to request aid of up to 1,000 euros to minimize the impact of the rise in energy prices. This call has an endowment of 292,491 euros that is financed with funds from the Provincial Council of Alicante.

Broadly speaking, SMEs, micro-SMEs and the self-employed of the headings included in the call that have started their activity before December 31, 2021, that have their fiscal address in Benidorm, and whose establishment has the corresponding license, may apply for this aid. opening.

The costs of electricity, gas or fuel directly linked to the activity and assumed in a specific period reflected in the bases will be considered eligible expenses. Through this aid, up to 50% of these expenses will be subsidized, with a maximum amount of 1,000 euros. The expenses that are contributed may not have been presented for the obtaining and justification of other public aid.

The objective of the Government Team, as explained by the Councilor for Employment, Mónica Gómez, is "to help improve the situation that these sectors have had to go through during the pandemic and that is complicated by the current economic reality". Gómez has specified that “as in other grants with similar characteristics, applications must be submitted electronically at the Electronic Office of the Benidorm City Council, through the link https://sede.benidorm.org/catalogo-de-servicios/DIPCOV /. The deadline expires at 11:59 p.m. on Friday 26.

Among the requirements is that the average monthly billing of the months for which the aid is to be requested -which must be between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022- has been equal to or less than the billed average in the same months of 2019.
In the Electronic Headquarters and also in the BOP, the full bases of the call for aid can be consulted, in which the requirements that the applicant companies or self-employed must meet, the profiles and epigraphs of the businesses that can benefit, the expenses eligible, etc.

The head of Local Promotion has pointed out that "this aid is one more example of the constant and maintained support for the productive fabric that the City Council has been carrying out since the Covid-19 crisis was declared and with which it is now intended to minimize the impact of the escalation of the price of energy or inflation”.

Gómez has stressed that "during all this time, we have been modulating the aid to attend at all times to the productive or population sectors that most needed it", and added that "this will continue to be the line of action of this government".
SMEs, micro-SMEs or self-employed entrepreneurs with fiscal domicile in Benidorm who carry out their activity in the CNAEs detailed below are eligible for this aid:

4511 Sale of automobiles and light motor vehicles
4520 Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
4532 Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories
4520 Sale, maintenance and repair of motorcycles and their parts and accessories
4778 Other retail sale of new items in specialized stores
4942 Moving services
5221 Activities related to land transportation
6831 Real estate agents
6832 Property management and administration
7711 Rental of automobiles and light motor vehicles
7721 Rental of leisure and sporting goods
7734 Rental of means of navigation
7911 Travel Agencies
7912 Tour operator activities
7990 Other reservation services