Overview
- Madrid’s social affairs chief, Ana Dávila, formally requested an urgent meeting on February 23 to address what the region says is an accumulated shortfall through 2025.
- After the February 24 Cabinet meeting, Minister Pablo Bustinduy said he will meet but argued there is no legal debt and described the 50% state share as a political commitment.
- The region estimates the gap is near €3 billion, rising by more than €1 million per day late last year, and says the missing funds could have created 12,000 residential places or 17 million hours of home care.
- Madrid cites the government’s use of a royal decree-law to fund ALS as evidence that increasing support is a matter of priorities, and it criticizes selective bilateral deals with other regions.
- Bustinduy highlighted a state funding increase of more than 160% since 2020 to over €3.6 billion this year, plus nearly €3 billion in EU funds for care reforms, and called for unanimous backing of pending disability and dependency changes.