PARES 3.0 puts 39.8 million euros into activity centres and 55.4 million into residential homes for disabled people. The state pays up to 80 percent, funded places are to be covered by Social Security cooperation agreements, and charities apply until 30 December.
A regional decree in force since 22 October lets disabled people aged 14 and over who have lived in the Azores for six months apply for a personal assistant, up to a reference 40 hours a week. Its costs only take effect with a regional budget that funds it, and rules are due within 90 days.
The independent mechanism that monitors the UN disability convention says the 2027 budget lacks identifiable money, enough funding and result indicators. What it asks for, what the budget holds for disabled people, and the vote dates.
SDR Portugal met the environment minister's 16 October deadline with a plan of 14 measures to cut street litter and ease pressure on supermarket machines, as Volta passed 500 million containers. Lisbon's mayor refused to meet it, and ACAPO says blind people cannot reclaim their 10 cents.
Disability federations say most of the 98 Resource Centres for Inclusion are not working because their funding is unknown, as in past years. What the centres do, and what parents can ask the school.
When the SNS pays for a non-urgent ambulance or patient car to take you to treatment, who qualifies, the 2026 income limit, and how to ask.
An order published on Tuesday raises the fee paid to families who take older or disabled adults into their homes, for 2025 and 2026 at once. The fee is up 9.8 percent on 2024, and the 1991 law says it should be updated every year.
