The new Valencian government Carlos Mazon was released approving a total of 100 million euros in direct aid has companies, legal entities or independents in the event that they hired a worker whose businesses were paralyzed by DANA which, on October 29, devastated dozens of municipalities in the province of Valencia. Of this amount, half, or 50 million euros, will be allocated to industrial companies. While the remaining 50 million will go to commercial, tourism and service companies. This was confirmed by the vice-president spokesperson for the Executive. Susana Camarero.
The initiative responds to the tone set by Carlos Mazón himself in the statement he made after the new councilors took office, also this Tuesday: “The action will be the message“.
The granting of these 100 million euros was formalized by a decree that the new executive of Carlos Mazón gave its approval during an extraordinary plenary session which followed the ordinary. Both, this Tuesday. With these 100 million, The Mazón executive has already granted 400 million euros in direct aid since the start of the crisis generated by DANA.
The aid is intended to maintenance of employment and economic recovery of the above-mentioned companies. These are subsidies that seek to respond to the exceptional situation of the companies concerned in order to help them regain their productivity and, at the same time, accelerate the return to normal.
The granting of these 100 million It is distributed between the years 2024 and 2025, at 50%. This means that for the rest of the year, just one month, 25 million euros will be allocated to industrial companies and the same amount to commercial, tourism and service companies. The same distribution will be that of the remaining 50 million of this aid plan in 2025.
The beneficiaries will be companies which had economic activity on October 28, 2024 in the municipalities concerned. That is to say 24 hours before DANA. And, due to the flood, they suffered material damage on their assets in warehouses, premises, establishments or in other spaces linked to their activity.
But, in addition, legal entities of any type can also benefit from it and, in the case of self-employed workers, provided that they have an employee. In addition, the Valencian Government is already preparing an initiative to award a decree on direct aid to the self-employed affected by the flood.
In the case in question, the aid will have a minimum amount of 5,000 euros per company or self-employed person with employee. The amount can be increased by 1,000 euros for each worker, up to a maximum of 30,000 euros for industrial companies and 15,000 euros for commercial, tourism and service companies.
