• As a novelty, the criteria for the distribution of credits for the years 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029 are established to give stability to the implementation of active employment policies
• For the first time, funds for algorithm training, artificial intelligence, disaster risk prevention and adverse weather events are prioritized
• 20% of the funds distributed in each year will go to the care that would have shown a greater impact on improving the employability of the Annual Plan for the Promotion of Decent Employment of the immediately previous year
• 29% of the funds will be distributed according to the degree of compliance of the PAFED of 2024
• Of the total of more than 2,571 M€ million euros that will be distributed among all the Autonomous Communities, 633 million will be allocated to priority groups such as Gypsy citizens, long-term unemployed and young people

The Ministry of Labor and Social Economy has approved, after the celebration of the LXXXVI Sectoral Conference on Employment and Labor Affairs the territorial distribution, the distribution of 344,658,108 euros to provide the Active Employment Policies (PAE) of 2025. The total to be distributed among all the Autonomous Communities for this purpose amounts to 2,571,961,030 euros.

This budgetary investment will make it possible to manage the employment and training programmes for work, which correspond to them normatively, and are included in the expenditure budget of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE).

In addition, it incorporates a multi-year funding framework until the year 2029 to give continuity to the implementation of active employment policies and provide stability to the National Employment System.

New training priorities

With regard to training for work, these funds will finance, alternating training, training with a commitment to contract, training linked to social dialogue and collective bargaining and calls for training for employed persons when these training actions are not linked to professional certificates and are linked to the Catalogue of Training Specialties of the National Employment System.

The grants intended to finance training in matters relating to social dialogue and collective bargaining, these funds, among other issues, will serve to prioritize training in the field of algorithms or artificial intelligence systems in accordance with the rights of representatives of working people provided for in Article 64(4)(d) of the Workers’ Statute, or in the negotiation of action protocols relating to measures for the prevention of risks from disasters and other adverse meteorological phenomena, provided for as content of collective agreements by Article 85(1) of the same legal text.

Distribution criteria

Each autonomous community will receive 70% of the amount allocated based on the criteria of application of article 62.2 of Law 3/2023, of February 28, on Employment.

The programme aimed at strengthening the personal resources dedicated to job guidance and prospecting in the Public Employment Services with 3,000 people and the grants intended to finance training in matters relating to social dialogue and collective bargaining will be distributed in the same amount allocated to each autonomous community in 2024.

The remaining amount, which represents 28.91% of the total funds allocated in 2025, will be distributed among the autonomous communities depending on the degree of compliance with the objectives set in the PAFED of 2024, taking into account the effort made in the services that had the greatest positive impact on employability, the percentage of people receiving benefits, the effort dedicated to training, the quality of their job orientation networks, and the value obtained in the Indices of Compliance of Objectives defined in the PAFED 2024.

20% of the funds allocated in 2024, that is 514,392,206 euros, will be directed to the development of the objectives relating to care that would have shown a greater impact on improving employability as indicated in the Annual Plan for the Promotion of Decent Employment of 2025.

The funds that the autonomous communities will eventually receive will be distributed around four initiatives and programs:

• Active Employment Policy Services and Programs: Employment and Training: 1.424.300.250 €
• Vocational training initiatives for employment aimed at employed and unemployed persons who do not correspond to professional certificates: 440,554,480 €
• Training initiatives in alternation in employment: 633,606,300 €
• Modernization of Public Employment Services. 73,500,000 €
• TOTAL: 2.571.961.030 €

Its impact on improving employability will be evaluated within the Annual Plan for the Promotion of Decent Employment 2025.

In addition, they will be oriented to the development of initiatives that would have shown a greater impact on improving employability.