The Government will launch two new calls for aid to the self-employed by 2025, one for those consolidated and another for those in the first years of their activity, which will be endowed with a total of 2.4 million euros.
This was explained this Monday by the president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, at a press conference in which, after holding a meeting with representatives of the business sector of the archipelago, she took stock of the 2024 calls and detailed the news for next year.
Dates and characteristics of each call
The first call, for the consolidated self-employed, will take place between January and March of next year and will be endowed with a total of one million euros. Like this year’s call, it will be structured in four programs based on the pillars for the consolidation of a business, such as innovation and digitalization, strategic and financial management, sustainability and social responsibility, and investments to improve competitiveness. The second will be the zero quota for those self-employed in their first and second years, and for those who combine this activity with an employed job, which will start in April and will have 1.4 million euros. All of them, highlighted Prohens, will take into account the months of maternity leave for self-employed women. “If it is practically a chimera to be a mother and self-employed, we cannot make the aid penalize motherhood,” she said. The aids delivered throughout 2024, said the regional president, have involved a disbursement of 920,000 euros, which have reached 938 self-employed workers. These -also for consolidated, dual and first-time workers- have enabled 2,520 new self-employed workers to register, which represents an increase of 2.6% with respect to 2023. “This is a great satisfaction and a boost to continue promoting these calls for aid, and to improve them and reach more people,” celebrated Prohens, who considered that the self-employed were “the great forgotten” of the past legislatures. She also announced that, with the intention of facilitating the procedures for potential beneficiaries, the Official Association of Administrative Managers will collaborate with the Government in the dissemination and processing of aid. The meeting and subsequent presentation was attended by the Councilor for Enterprise, Employment and Energy, Alejandro Saenz de San Pedro, and representatives of CAEB, AJE, Uatae and Pimem, among others. This has taken place in the new Center for Guidance, Entrepreneurship, Accompaniment and Innovation for Employment in Palma, which will be inaugurated on January 7 and will seek to serve as a point of care for the self-employed of the archipelago.
