The City Council extends until the 10th the deadline to request new municipal aid for SMEs and the self-employed

Benidorm City Council has extended until December 10 the deadline to request new municipal aid to SMEs, micro-SMEs, self-employed workers and professionals aimed at minimizing the economic impact caused by the current energy crisis and increased costs caused by the war. Ukraine. This has been agreed by the Local Government Board, at the proposal of the Councilor for Employment and Local Promotion, Mónica Gómez. The councillor recalled that "this call is endowed with 647,278 euros, 100% financed by the Provincial Council of Alicante, and provides for a maximum aid per applicant of up to 3,000 euros."

Gómez has indicated that "this is an 'extra' economic injection for the productive fabric and entrepreneurs of Benidorm at a time of great uncertainty, not without difficulties and in which prices are clearly and constantly escalating."

According to the rules of the call published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Alicante (BOP), expenses paid between July 1, 2022, and June 30 of this year for the rental of the premises or office, the interest on loans for the acquisition of the business premises, half of the amount paid for electricity, gas and fuel, as well as the self-employed fee.

As the councillor has explained, applications must be processed electronically through the Electronic Office – https://sede.benidorm.org – until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, December 10. In this way, interested parties are granted five days more time than initially planned, to "make it easier for as many applicants as possible to be eligible for these aids," said the councillor of Employment and Local Promotion.

Mónica Gómez has stressed that “the support and attention to companies and the self-employed has been a constant of this government team and will continue to be,” while thanking the Provincial Council for “its sensitivity to the productive fabric of the province and the circumstances it is going through.”

At this point, she recalled that "public administrations must promote an environment in which companies and self-employed workers can continue to generate employment, providing the necessary aid to facilitate their activity and for it to translate into jobs." “Employment – Gómez has emphasized – is the best social policy and that is why we must collaborate in its creation and maintenance.”