More than 730 people have died this year while awaiting a dependency resolution in the Islands.
The study shows that in the first nine months of the year, 284,020 people across the country ended their employment.
PalmA total of 736 people died up to September of this year in the Balearic Islands while waiting for a resolution on their level of dependency or the Individual Care Program (PIA), according to data from the State Observatory for Dependency prepared by the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services.
The study shows that the first nine months of the year ended in the whole of the State with 284,020 people awaiting a procedure, 150,606 with recognized right to wait for care, 8,140 more than at the beginning of 2025. ~BK_0_2 people awaiting a resolution of degree and resolution of the PIA, 10,192 fewer than in 2024. The majority were concentrated in Catalonia and Andalusia and 736 were in the Balearic Islands. On the other hand, the number of people entitled to benefits in the Archipelago has increased by 4.6%, below regions such as the Canary Islands (22.8%) and Galicia (14%) and the national average (5.5%).
In the Balearic Islands, there are 7,017 people on waiting lists, and 14.1% are "unattended." Between December 31, 2024, and September 30, the waiting list has increased by 18.1%. The average waiting time in the Archipelago, according to data collected by the Observatory, is 223 days, far from the 113 days in Castilla y León and the 130 days in the Basque Country, but below the national average, which stands at 349 days. The maximum period to resolve a case will be six months, or 180 days.
The reasons for these "unacceptable delays," the Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services pointed out, are the "successive cuts" and the "absurd and cumbersome bureaucratic framework, which becomes a death trap for accessing and enjoying benefits." Although the shock plan for dependency has meant a significant reduction in waiting lists, "it has not met the expected objectives due to a paralysis in the increase in investment in 2024 and 2025."
While last year the Spanish government reduced its percentage of dependency funding to 27% (-1.5%), the Balearic Islands was, with 80.6%, the third autonomous community that contributed the most. The "endless delays of many procedures," they lamented, end up resulting in many people being removed from the waiting list because they died without receiving the benefits or services to which they were entitled.
