Utiel announces direct aid for relatives of those deceased due to the DANA

The Utiel City Council has announced grants intended for the direct awarding of financial aid to the relatives of those who passed away due to the DANA. The announcement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Valencia number 199, corresponding to October 16, 2026, with the official reference 2026/12509 and the identifier BDNS 931527.

The announcement appears in section I of the gazette, within the MUNICIPALITIES section, among the publications submitted by the province’s city councils and edited by the Provincial Council of Valencia. This is a call for grants that the council is organizing through a direct award procedure—meaning without competitive bidding between applicants—aimed at families who have lost a relative as a result of the DANA.

The call is part of the wave of municipal aid activated following the DANA of October 29, 2024, the flooding episode that hit the province of Valencia and municipalities in regions such as Utiel-Requena, where the convening town is located, with particular severity.

What the gazette publishes

The announcement from the Utiel City Council summarizes the essential elements of the call:

• Convening body: Utiel City Council.
• Purpose: direct awarding of financial aid to relatives of those deceased due to the DANA.
• Procedure: direct awarding of grants.
• Announcement reference: 2026/12509.
• Call identifier: BDNS 931527.
• Publication: Official Gazette of the Province of Valencia number 199, dated October 16, 2026, section I (Municipalities).

The identifier BDNS 931527 refers to the National Grants Database, the state registry where the regulatory bases, amounts, and deadlines for each call are recorded. This is the means to consult the specific conditions of the aid, as the announcement in the provincial gazette serves as the official publication of the convening agreement.

The aftermath of the DANA in Valencian city councils

Utiel’s initiative is not an isolated one. Other councils in the province have published calls for direct aid linked to the consequences of the DANA in recent weeks, depicting a heterogeneous map of municipal responses focused on the hardest-hit groups.

• Algemesí definitively approved the modification of the regulatory bases for the direct grant procedure for aid destined for coexistence units, families, and individuals with a declaration of total loss of their home as a result of the DANA (2026/11171, published in the bulletin of September 15, 2026).
• Mislata published the extract of the call for direct economic aid regarding transport for natural persons affected by the DANA suffered on October 29, 2024, in the municipality (2026/11808, identifier BDNS 930709, bulletin of September 30, 2026).

In both cases, as in that of Utiel, direct granting and publication in the provincial bulletin are used to provide legal coverage for payments directed to specific individuals already identified by their situation following the catastrophe.

A procedure with effects on the affected families

The call from Utiel arrives nearly two years after the DANA and focuses on a particularly sensitive scenario: the relatives of those who died during the storm. Unlike the aid lines oriented toward housing, transport, or rehabilitation, this call is directed at the family nucleus of the fatalities, a group that in many cases has been left out of the general reconstruction bases.

The announcement is limited to establishing the framework of the call; individual amounts, kinship accreditation requirements, and the application deadline must be consulted in the bases deposited in the National Grants Database under code BDNS 931527 and at the municipal headquarters.

The relevance of the news is twofold. On one hand, it confirms that city councils continue to enable their own lines of economic compensation two years after the disaster, when many regional and state aids have already closed their calendars. On the other, it adds a new chapter to the institutional recognition of the DANA’s fatalities, in this case from the local sphere and with an administrative formula that allows files to be resolved without the timelines of a public tender.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Valencia, no. 199, October 16, 2026, section I (Municipalities), page 5 (official reference: 2026/12509).