Extremadura submits the IT Tariff decree to public consultation

The Extremaduran Public Employment Service (SEXPE) has opened the public hearing and information process for the draft decree that will establish the regulatory bases for the subsidies of the Economic Support Program for Self-Employed Workers on Temporary Disability, known as Tarifa IT, and which will approve its first call for applications for the 2027-2028 period. The General Secretariat for Employment grants an abbreviated period of eight business days for any interested natural or legal person to examine and comment on the text. The resolution, signed on November 3, 2026, is published in the Official Gazette of Extremadura (DOE) number 216, dated November 10, 2026, with the official reference 2026062824.

The regulatory project is processed under Article 66.3 of Law 1/2002, of February 28, of the Government and Administration of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, once the text has been drafted by the regional employment agency. The regulation is created with a dual purpose: to establish the regulatory bases for the program’s subsidies and to simultaneously approve the first call for aid, referring to the 2027-2028 biennium.

The target group consists of self-employed workers in Extremadura who take sick leave—that is, those whose activity is interrupted by a temporary disability and, consequently, their income. The program is structured as economic support for this forced cessation of self-employment activity.

Eight business days to submit contributions

The public hearing and information period is eight business days and is counted from the day following the publication of the resolution in the DOE, that is, starting from November 11, 2026. Opinions, proposals, or contributions may be submitted through two channels:

• The means provided for in Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.
• The email address dge.sexpe@juntaex.es.

The full text of the draft decree is available to interested parties on the Transparency Portal of the Junta de Extremadura, at the address gobiernoabierto.juntaex.es/transparencia/web/c-eetd.

Abbreviated processing for reasons of public interest

The resolution justifies the reduction of the ordinary hearing period in a report from the Social Economy and Self-Employment Service of the SEXPE, which identifies reasons of public interest and the need to expedite the processing of the regulatory project. This same service is the competent body in the matter of social economy and self-employment within the organization.

The processing is completed with the prior public consultation procedure required by Article 133 of Law 39/2015. This step was covered by a resolution from the General Secretariat for Employment dated October 23, 2026, which opened a suggestion period of eight calendar days starting from the day following its publication in the Transparency Portal.

No allegations in the prior consultation

According to the published text, no allegations were submitted during that prior public consultation. The new phase of hearing and public information is now open regarding the already drafted articles, and includes both the regulatory bases and the content of the first call.

The resolution was signed in Mérida on November 3, 2026, by the General Secretary for Employment, María José Nevado del Campo, and is disseminated through the DOE, the official bulletin of the Autonomous Community of Extremadura.

The calendar set by these dates conditions the processing: the allegations admitted within these eight business days must be incorporated before the decree reaches the Governing Council, an essential prior step for the IT Tariff to exist as a right and for the 2027-2028 call to be resolved. For self-employed workers in Extremadura, this procedure is the last opportunity to influence the access requirements, the amount, and the management of an aid that would cover periods of sick leave, one of the historical weak points of self-employment protection.

Source: Official Gazette of Extremadura (DOE), no. 216, of November 10, 2026, section I, Extremadura Public Employment Service (official reference: 2026062824).