Up to 55% subsidy per residential place and more agile procedures

The Official Gazette of Castilla-La Mancha publishes this Wednesday, November 11, 2026, Order 159/2026, of November 6, from the Department of Social Welfare, which modifies the regulatory bases for subsidies intended to maintain places in residences and day centers for the elderly. The new wording sets the maximum subsidizable amount for Line 1 at 55% of the price per place and adjusts the distribution criteria and granting procedures. The regulation comes into force the day following its publication, that is, November 12, 2026.

What changes in the aid per place

The modification affects article 5.3 of Order 81/2025, of June 6, published in DOCM number 110 of June 10, 2025. For Line 1 —maintenance of places in residences and day centers— the maximum amount to be subsidized per place may not exceed 55% of the price of the place established in each call. The individual amount is obtained using these criteria:

• The applicable price is multiplied by the number of days of occupancy.
• The financial contribution of the user is deducted from the result.
• In residential places, different prices are established according to the degree of dependency or the absence of dependency.
• To resolve the granting, a full year is computed for residential places and 248 days for day centers.

The text justifies the change based on the experience of calls already resolved, with the aim of “specifying the criteria” for the amount and responding “to the needs of the territory.”

Programs and projects of Line 2

The order also reorganizes Line 2, dedicated to programs and projects, with three modalities and differentiated caps:

• Housing and apartments: personnel and maintenance costs, up to 100% of the subsidized activity, with maximum amounts according to the intensity of care.
• Senior centers: up to 100%, weighting the population over 60 years of age of the local entity, the existence of analogous centers, and the activity of the previous year.
• Active and healthy aging or promotion of personal autonomy, including itinerant programs: a maximum of 50% of the total cost, with a contribution from the beneficiary entity of no less than 50%.

The beneficiaries are local entities with a territorial scope smaller than a municipality, municipalities, associations of municipalities (mancomunidades), and municipal groupings. The aid is integrated into the Strategic Subsidy Plan of budget section 27-Social Welfare, within objective 00135 “Elderly” and line 000384 “residential centers, day stays, and programs.”

Deadlines, settlement, and transitional regime

The application period will be established in each call for applications and may not be less than ten business days from the day following the publication of the call and its summary in the DOCM, compared to the longer periods handled by the previous guidelines. Additionally, Article 14.7 is suppressed, in line with streamlining the processing and specifying the settlement regime.

Grant procedures already initiated before the entry into force will be governed until their completion by the regulations in effect at the time of their initiation, including justification, settlement and, where applicable, reimbursement. The order is supported by Article 73.2 of the Recast Text of the Treasury Law of Castilla-La Mancha, approved by Legislative Decree 1/2002, of November 19, and by Decree 21/2008, of February 5, and conforms to the principles of Article 129 of Law 39/2015. The signature in Toledo, on November 6, 2026, corresponds to the Minister of Social Welfare, Bárbara García Torijano.

The impact is direct for the coffers of the city councils and associations of municipalities that maintain elderly care centers: the new 55% cap and the computation of 248 days in day centers organize the financing, while the reduction of deadlines and the suppression of formalities seek to ensure that entities collect payments sooner and with less administrative burden.

Source: Official Gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, no. 216, November 11, 2026, Section I (General Provisions), pp. 39723-39725 (official reference: 2026/8081).