The PP asks the Senado for more funding for dependency and disability
PP senators Bienvenido de Arriba and Cristina Casanueva present 45 amendments to the disability law and demand that the Gobierno fund dependency at 50%, according to the note sent by the PP.
Redacción · Publicada el September 10, 2026
The Grupo Parlamentario Popular (GPP) has submitted 45 amendments to the Proyecto de Ley by which the Texto Refundido de la Ley General de derechos de las personas con discapacidad y de su inclusión social is amended, which is being debated in the Pleno del Senado.
Among the PP's proposals is setting dependency funding at 50% between the State and the comunidades autónomas, reviewing the priority criteria for access to services, strengthening early intervention, and allowing the accredited experience of personal assistance professionals to be valued.
On accessibility, the PP proposes that transport infrastructure have restrooms adapted for people with ostomy, updating the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal of 1962, and requiring real accessibility in public examinations for people with a disability degree below 33%.
On housing, the group proposes lowering VAT to 4% on accessibility works both in the primary residence and in common areas of buildings. On education, it advocates that families be able to choose the model and school for their children. On training, it asks that not obtaining the ESO diploma should not prevent access to other training pathways for people with disabilities, proposes a plan against the digital divide, and calls for the recognition of deafblindness as a disability.
Senator Bienvenido de Arriba, spokesperson for Derechos Sociales of the GPP, accused the Gobierno of having justified until now that the budget extension prevented increasing dependency funding, and of having changed its discourse afterward. He recalled that, according to his data, the Gobierno of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero promised in 2006 to contribute a thousand million euros to dependency and only four hundred million arrived, and that in 2010 the retroactivity of dependency was eliminated and its funding was reduced.
Senator Cristina Casanueva, spokesperson for Políticas Integrales of the GPP, denounced what she called an eight-year historic non-payment by the Gobierno on disability and dependency matters, and recalled that ELA patients went a year without funding for the copayment. «Rights without funding are social hypocrisy,» said Casanueva.
Both spokespersons criticized the Gobierno for having reached a dependency funding agreement at 50% with the País Vasco and a specific provision for Cataluña, while, according to the PP, funding remains unresolved in the rest of the territory.
Among the PP's proposals is setting dependency funding at 50% between the State and the comunidades autónomas, reviewing the priority criteria for access to services, strengthening early intervention, and allowing the accredited experience of personal assistance professionals to be valued.
On accessibility, the PP proposes that transport infrastructure have restrooms adapted for people with ostomy, updating the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal of 1962, and requiring real accessibility in public examinations for people with a disability degree below 33%.
On housing, the group proposes lowering VAT to 4% on accessibility works both in the primary residence and in common areas of buildings. On education, it advocates that families be able to choose the model and school for their children. On training, it asks that not obtaining the ESO diploma should not prevent access to other training pathways for people with disabilities, proposes a plan against the digital divide, and calls for the recognition of deafblindness as a disability.
Senator Bienvenido de Arriba, spokesperson for Derechos Sociales of the GPP, accused the Gobierno of having justified until now that the budget extension prevented increasing dependency funding, and of having changed its discourse afterward. He recalled that, according to his data, the Gobierno of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero promised in 2006 to contribute a thousand million euros to dependency and only four hundred million arrived, and that in 2010 the retroactivity of dependency was eliminated and its funding was reduced.
Senator Cristina Casanueva, spokesperson for Políticas Integrales of the GPP, denounced what she called an eight-year historic non-payment by the Gobierno on disability and dependency matters, and recalled that ELA patients went a year without funding for the copayment. «Rights without funding are social hypocrisy,» said Casanueva.
Both spokespersons criticized the Gobierno for having reached a dependency funding agreement at 50% with the País Vasco and a specific provision for Cataluña, while, according to the PP, funding remains unresolved in the rest of the territory.