The Ministry of Finance has communicated to the Autonomous Communities and Cities of Ceuta and Melilla an upward revision of the deliveries on account (EECC) that they will receive in the year 2026. The territories will receive a total of 157.730 million next year in that concept, so a new record is set in the resources received by the territories. A figure that is 7% higher than that given to them in 2025, as announced at the meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council by the first vice-president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero. And that has been revised upwards with respect to the one announced in July by the good behavior of the Spanish economy.

In the case of Asturias, its deliveries on account will grow to 3,984 million, 6.13% more than in 2025. A favorable revision for the autonomous areas that demonstrates the commitment of the Executive with the autonomous communities, which are responsible for guaranteeing the citizens the deployment of social policies and access to health, education or dependency benefits.

This review of account deliveries, which has been reported to each CCAA on a case-by-case basis, has to be supplemented by the settlement forecast for 2024. Combining both figures, the Autonomous Communities and Ceuta and Melilla will receive 170.3 billion euros in resources from the financing system.

Adding both concepts, Asturias will receive in resources of the financing system 4,192 million euros. That is, 6.1% more than in the previous exercise. This is another record and reiterates the guarantees offered by the State to the autonomous governments since the arrival of Pedro Sánchez to the Presidency of the Executive.

Increased margin on the deficit path

María Jesús Montero has also informed the CCAA of the fiscal margin they will have thanks to the deficit path proposed in her subsector for the period 2026-2028. A plan whereby its deficit target for the next three years will be -0.1%. This means that they will not have to make extra efforts in that triennium once they reach their goals. This will allow the territories to have a fiscal margin of 1.755 billion and up to 5.485 billion in the triennium in 2026 alone.

The benefit of this path for Asturias will be 33 million in 2026, which autonomy can use to reinforce the social services it provides to its population. In 2027, the fiscal margin will rise to 34 million, and in 2028 it will reach 36 million. In total, meeting this deficit target will allow autonomy to have 103 million euros extra that can be allocated to the Welfare State.

These measures are consistent with the progressive government’s continued support for regional CCAAs. Thus, during the worst pandemic in a century, the Executive maintained unchanged the deliveries on account in that year despite the fall in GDP, also assuming the negative liquidations that were generated as a result of the fall in revenue. Or the approval of direct resources amounting to almost 30 billion euros to deal with the consequences of COVID and which have meant the largest transfer of funds outside the financing system.