Vilagarcía opens the second call for grants for the indefinite hiring of unemployed persons

The Vilagarcía de Arousa City Council opens the second 2026 call for grants to companies that hire unemployed persons, with an amount between 800 and 3,000 euros for each permanent contract. The call is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Pontevedra (BOPPO) number 219, dated November 12, 2026, in the Local Administration section, with the identifier BDNS 940903. The extract is signed by the mayor-president, Alberto Varela Paz, in Vilagarcía de Arousa on November 9, 2026.

The publication responds to the provisions of articles 17.3.b and 20.8.a of Law 38/2003, of November 17, general on subsidies, and the full text of the bases can be consulted in the National Database of Subsidies. The grants are financed from budget application 241-470 of the 2026 budgets, for a maximum total amount of 27,500 euros.

This is the same budget item used to finance the first call, approved by the Local Government Board on June 22, 2026, and published in the BOPPO on July 1, 2026 (BDNS 916514), which exhausted the available credit. Therefore, this second call establishes a preferential attention regime for applications that could not be addressed due to lack of credit.

Requirements: registration, SPEG and permanent contract

Applicants must meet these conditions:

• Unemployed persons registered as job seekers in the SPEG and registered as residents in the municipality of Vilagarcía de Arousa on the date of application submission.
• Full-time permanent contracts formalized between October 1, 2025, and September 30, 2026.
• The Local Government Board may grant the aid for part-time contracts when, due to the nature of the company’s activity, the working day is less than that legally established to be considered full-time.
• A maximum of two subsidizable hires per company.
• Beneficiaries: private natural or legal persons located in the Salnés and Caldas regions.

Amounts and available credit

The amount of the grants will be a minimum of 800 euros and a maximum of 3,000 euros per hire, depending on the score obtained in the application of the scale. The total credit is 27,500 euros and may be increased without a new call in the cases of article 31.2 of Law 9/2007, of June 13, on subsidies of Galicia, subject to a declaration of availability.

If the credit is insufficient, a provisional reserve list will be formed: first, the ratified applications that were not addressed, in order of origin, and then the new ones, in order of submission. Inclusion in this list does not generate any right and remains valid until December 31, 2026.

Preferential attention for those left out in July

Priority will be given to applications that meet all these conditions:

• To have been submitted on time in the original call, approved by the Local Government Board on June 22, 2026, and published in the BOPPO on July 1, 2026.
• To be complete, or to have been amended on time, and to meet the requirements demanded in those bases.
• Not to have been left unattended exclusively due to the exhaustion of credit, according to the report of the processing unit.
• To be ratified by the holder in accordance with the eighth base.

The holders of the applications included in Annex III who wish to maintain them must ratify them within ten days counting from the day following the publication of this call in the BOPPO, using the form in Annex II submitted via the electronic office. It will not be necessary to resubmit documentation that is already in the file; applications not ratified on time will lose their preferential attention.

Deadline and method of submission

The deadline for submitting applications ends on November 20, 2026, and begins the day following the publication of the extract in the BOPPO. Requests are submitted electronically at the Electronic Office of the City Council of Vilagarcía de Arousa (sede.vilagarcia.gal), using the standardized model of Annex I and the procedure code 50002_ Program of grants for employment under a contract.

The order of attention is established by the date and time of complete entry into the registry. Until all ratified applications are resolved, no resolution proposals will be issued regarding new ones, and the necessary credit will be reserved for the former.

The call arrives in a context of credit exhausted in the first round, which limits the aspirations of companies that submit their application now: only the remainder left after attending to the ratified requests will go toward the new ones. For SMEs in Salnés and Caldas, the grant allows for the reduction of the cost of converting a temporary position into a permanent one, while for job seekers registered in Vilagarcía, it represents a direct incentive for their stable hiring.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Pontevedra, no. 219, November 12, 2026, Local Administration, Vilagarcía de Arousa (official reference: 2026078304; BDNS 940903).