les meves ajudes

- Cohabitation unit: These benefits consider a cohabitation unit to be the group of people registered at the same address, whether or not they are related.

- Registration: Yes, you have to be registered as living in Barcelona when applying. 

- Legally resident: Yes, you must be legally resident in Spain. 

- Documentation required: DNI/NIF/NIE, valid passport or equivalent document of the applicant and of all adult members of the cohabitation unit. If any member of the cohabitation unit does not have a DNI/NIF/NIE or passport, they must bring whatever ID document they may have.
Proof of legal residence in Barcelona must be provided.

- Income: The income of the cohabitation unit in the three months prior to submitting the application must not exceed the following amounts:

In the case of persons with disabilities or severe dependency, the income may not exceed 3 times the weighted IRSC:

- Wealth: Neither the applicant nor any other member of the cohabitation unit may have a property in their ownership or usufruct, unless they do not have the use and enjoyment of it due to separation or divorce or for any reason beyond their control, or when the property is inaccessible due to the disability of the owner or of any member of the cohabitation unit. A person is not considered to be the owner or usufructuary of a dwelling if the right is only over an aliquot part of the dwelling and has been obtained by transmission mortis causa.

The savings taxable base of the personal income tax return of the cohabitation unit may not exceed €500. An exception to this prohibition is made in cases where this amount is the result of a dation in payment as a consequence of foreclosure on a dwelling that has been the applicant’s habitual and permanent residence.

- Recognised disability / Dependency: In the case of people with disabilities or who are highly dependent, the income threshold is more flexible in order to facilitate this group’s access to benefits (see ‘Income’ section).

- Gender-violence victim: One of the target groups for this assistance are people who have completed their stay and inclusion process in a residential resource for women victims of male violence in which the referral service is SARA (Care, Recovery and Shelter Service) or ABITS (Agency for a Comprehensive Approach to Sex Work), both Barcelona City Council services.

- Situation with regard to the dwelling: 
The rental contract must be for a property located in Barcelona, which must be intended for use as the applicant’s habitual and permanent residence, understood as the one that constitutes their address according to the corresponding municipal register.
Being in rent arrears or having difficulty in meeting the financial obligations derived from the rental contract of their primary residence due to an objective lack of financial resources.

Beneficiaries: 
a) People who sign a rental contract for a home after completing their stay and inclusion process in a residential resource of the Barcelona Inclusion Housing Network in the last 6 months, or in a residential resource for women victims of male violence in which the referral service is SARA (Care, Recovery and Shelter Service) or ABITS (Agency for a Comprehensive Approach to Sex Work), both services of Barcelona City Council, as well as people who, at the request of the Assessment Board for the allocation of housing due to a social emergency, have lost their habitual residence and sign a new rental contract.
b) People receiving help from the mediation service of the Barcelona Network of Housing Offices who:

b.1) Have signed a rental contract through the Barcelona Rental Housing Pool.
b.2) Have agreed to a minimum reduction of €50 per month on the rent bill, provided that they submit the application for these benefits within a maximum period of 120 calendar days from the effective date of the reduction agreement signed with the property. Exceptionally, the requirement of the rent reduction agreement will not be enforceable if you have initiated legal proceedings for non-payment of rent for the same property or if there is a reliable communication of a claim for the rent debt by the property.
b.3) Have received reliable notification from the property warning of the termination of the rental contract and, through the housing office mediation services, are in a position to maintain it.

C) Cohabitation units that have been beneficiaries of the guaranteed temporary assistance and/or the housing access support service granted by Barcelona City Council’s Social Rights Department, provided that they submit their application for these benefits within a maximum of 60 days from the date the effects of the guaranteed temporary assistance and/or the housing support service are terminated.

- Rent amount: The monthly rent for the dwelling for which the benefit is requested may not exceed €1,020. 

- The cohabitation unit must allocate more than 30% of its net monthly income towards paying the rent corresponding to its habitual and permanent residence.

- The cohabitation unit must ensure that it is in a position to continue to pay the rent for its habitual and permanent residence. This requirement is considered to be met when the amount of the assistance granted and the monthly income of the cohabitation unit is at least equal to the amount of the rent.

- The person holding the rental contract or any other member of the cohabitation unit must not be related to the owners by marriage or any other similar stable relationship, by consanguinity, adoption or affinity up to the second degree. This same criterion shall also apply to the relationship between the housing provider and the tenant when the housing provider is a legal entity, in relation to any of its partners or stakeholders. 

- The rent for the dwelling for which the benefit is requested must be paid by bank transfer or direct debit from a bank account held by the applicant, by deposit into an account, or by a receipt issued by the property manager, at least from the month following the date of submission of the application.

- These benefits are not available to tenants of housing owned or managed by the Catalan Housing Agency or by the Barcelona Municipal Institute for Housing and Renovation, or housing subsidised by public programmes. 

- People who have been granted a social emergency benefit following mediation in the city of Barcelona in the 2022 call for applications for the same dwelling are not eligible for these benefits, except in cases of duly accredited separation or divorce or a credible claim for non-payment of rent.

Incompatibilities: 

These benefits are incompatible with other aid or benefits from public administrations or entities that serve the same purpose for the same months of the current year. In the event of a duplication of benefits for the same months, a partial or total revocation of the agreement will be carried out in proportion to the duplicated amount.

Amount:

The benefits are awarded for a maximum of 12 months.

The monthly amount for the benefit will be determined by the following formula:

Current rent - 30% of the weighted income of the cohabitation unit = amount of benefit

The minimum monthly amount of benefit is €20 and the maximum €500.

More information:

- The application period starts on 26 February 2025 and ends on 5 December 2025, both dates included.

- The benefit applications admission period may close earlier, depending on budget availability. The benefit applications admission period will be closed by resolution of the Barcelona Housing Consortium Manager, which will be published in the DOGC (Official Journal of the Government of Catalonia) and the BOPB (Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona).