Living in Madrid means, for almost all citizens, using public transport. The metro and buses are two of the most popular for move to different areas of the city and the autonomous communityas well as Cercanías, although it does not depend on regional organizations but on those of the State.
For several years, the central government and the autonomous communities have implemented anti-crisis measures in the transport sector, granting each organization a 30% reduction. Therefore, until the end of this year, the transport pass in Madrid is reduced 60% for the different prices.
These reductions are agreed until December 2024 and it remains to be seen whether they will continue next year. Recently, the Madrid government announced that will maintain its 30% rate cut if the central government also does sothus being able to extend the current discount for next year.
Currently, there is a group in the company that now has a new advantage in your transport subscription from Madrid. As we can see on the Community of Madrid website, there are currently subsidies that allow you to use this card completely free.
Who can use the free transport ticket?
As the community reports, there is now direct aid to concessions to cover travel costs by public transport. to the unemployed who participate in professional training actions for employment financed by public funds. In total, a provision of 2.4 million euros would be provided for this purpose.
Thus, travel costs would be covered by free transport ticket refills beneficiaries, who are unemployed people who meet the following conditions:
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Be unemployed and registered as a jobseeker.
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Have a public transport card.
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The training action you follow must have a minimum duration of 100 hours and be delivered face-to-face.
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Have successfully completed the first 25 percent of a training action: aimed at obtaining a professional certificate without including the off-work internship module, nor the rest of the specialties included in the SEPE catalog of training specialties.
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The required conditions must be met for the entire time you are a recipient of aid.
It should be noted that this aid It will only be available to cover tariff zones which are included in the transfer to the training center from the address indicated in the job application of the person applying.
Necessary documents
If you are one of the people who meet these conditions to be able to use the Madrid transport pass for free, you will need to complete the request on the website and process it. At the same time, we must contribute several documents with the request: Photograph of the transport card and, if the request is submitted through the training entity, Annex III of the Authorization completed for the presentation and signature of the request must be attached.
In addition, the Community of Madrid will consult, electronically, the data of the following documents unless the applicant objects in a motivated manner, in which case they must provide: A statement of professional history, a DNI/NIE identity document and an employment application (DARDE).
