Families increase aid for ALS to 1,631,612.90 euros

The Department of Families, Social Welfare and Dependency Care has increased by 11,612.90 euros the credit for the call for grants for the comprehensive care of the needs of people affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) corresponding to the 2026-2027 period. The decision was signed by the counselor Sandra Fernández Herranz on November 5, 2026, and published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) No. 142, of November 7, 2026, section III, with official reference 11258 and BDNS code: 874579. With this increase, the total budget for the call becomes 1,631,612.90 euros.

The original call was approved as an advance expenditure file through the resolution published in BOIB No. 171, of December 25, 2025, which established a maximum allocation of 1,620,000.00 euros to address the needs of people affected by this neurodegenerative disease in the archipelago. The objective is to regulate the procedure for granting these aids within the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands, with a subsidizable period that, in general, extends from January 1, 2026, to December 31, 2027, or, in any case, until the month in which the death of the beneficiary occurs.

According to the resolution, the amount requested so far exceeds the quantity initially planned, which has prompted the expansion. The text recalls that the call expressly provides that the allocation can be increased by resolution of the counselor without this implying the opening of a new deadline for the submission of applications.

Distribution by budget years

With the approved expansion, the final distribution of the credit is as follows:

2026: initial 585,000.00 euros plus 11,612.90 euros, totaling 596,612.90 euros.
2027: 825,000.00 euros, without modification.
2028: 210,000.00 euros, without modification.
Final total: 1,631,612.90 euros.

All amounts are charged to budget item 17301.313D01.48000.00 of the general budgets of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands for the 2025 financial year, extended for 2026. The resolution specifically authorizes an expenditure of 11,612.90 euros charged to this same item.

No new deadline and with a favorable report from the Comptroller

The expansion does not reopen the procedure: applications already submitted are maintained and no new ones can be entered, as established in section 3.2 of the call. The processing has followed this sequence:

October 28, 2026: justificatory memorandum from the Head of the Service of Centers and Programs II, with the approval of the Director General for Care for Dependents and Persons with Disabilities.
October 29, 2026: resolution of the Counselor ordering the start of the credit expansion procedure.
October 29, 2026: proposed resolution from the Director General for Care for Dependents and Persons with Disabilities.
November 2, 2026: favorable report from the General Comptroller of the CAIB.

The invoked legal framework includes the Recast Text of the Subsidies Law, approved by Legislative Decree 2/2005, of December 28, the regulatory bases established by the Order of the Counselor of Social Affairs and Sports of March 5, 2021, and Decree 75/2004, of August 27, on the deployment of certain aspects of the Finance Law. The resolution orders its communication to the National Subsidies Database and its publication in the official bulletin.

Appeals against the resolution

The text exhausts the administrative route. An optional appeal for reversal may be filed against it before the Counselor of Families and Social Affairs within one month from the day following its publication, in accordance with Article 124 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, and Article 57 of Law 3/2003, of March 26. Alternatively, a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed before the Contentious Chamber of the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands within two months, according to Article 46 of Law 29/1998, of July 13. The two appeals cannot be filed simultaneously.

The expansion ensures that all people with ALS who have already applied for the aid this year have budgetary coverage within the current call, without having to go through a new application process. For the affected families, the measure ensures the continuity of comprehensive care until 2028 within the initially planned calendar.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Balearic Islands (BOIB), no. 142, November 7, 2026, sec. III, pp. 62762-62764 (official reference: 11258; BDNS code: 874579).