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Whether you qualify, how much you would get a month, and how it differs from the Bono Alquiler Joven it replaced.

The income is YOURS alone: article 133.1.d) does not add the rest of the household.
Do you qualify?
Yes
Income ceiling
€42,000
Rent ceiling
€1,000
Requirement by requirement of article 133 of Royal Decree 326/2026
Age: 35 or underYes
Income under the ceilingYes
Rent under the ceilingYes
The IPREM multiple that applies to you5 times
  • Article 133.1.d) counts your income only. The general aid of article 116.1.c) adds the income of everyone whose habitual residence is the home.
  • Articles 118 and 136 make the plan's two rent aids incompatible with each other and with any other public rent aid. You have to pick one.
  • The first additional provision allows this aid to be granted with effect from 1 January 2026, four months before the plan came into force.
  • Article 134 gives two years, extendable by up to two more if the requirements still hold. Article 12 of Royal Decree 42/2022 gave two years and provided for no extension.
Your situation, the size of the municipality and the two exclusions

Video: how to use the calculator

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Which aid exists today, and why it is not called what you searched for

The Bono Alquiler Joven was created by Royal Decree 42/2022, which regulated both that grant and the State Plan for access to housing 2022-2025. On 24 April 2026 Royal Decree 326/2026 came into force, approving the State Housing Plan 2026-2030 and carrying its own rent aid for young people in section 3 of chapter VI. The name changed and so did the figures. It is worth stating precisely what is known about the Bono: it has not been expressly repealed, its metadata at the Official Gazette still says so, and the repealing provision of the new plan is a blanket clause, which leaves no annotation in a consolidated text. What is on the record is that the new plan’s preamble speaks of the Bono in the past tense, as a «necessary transitional phase» endowed with 800 million, that the two aids are incompatible with each other, and that the Bono depended each year on a specific budget line. Whether a particular region still has its window open is a regional fact to check on its own portal.

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The four requirements, and the one that stopped counting your flatmates

Article 133 asks for four things at once. Being 35 or under when you apply, 35 included. Holding a tenancy or use-transfer contract, or being in a position to sign one within two months of the award. That the home or room is your habitual and permanent residence, evidenced by the municipal register. And that your annual income does not exceed five times the IPREM. That last requirement is the one that changed most: article 6.1.d) of the Bono added the income of everyone whose habitual residence was the home, «whether or not they appear as parties to the contract», while article 133.1.d) says «that the beneficiary has annual income». Sharing a flat with someone who earns well no longer shuts you out. The threshold rises to 5.5 times with a recognised disability of 33 % or more, or as the child of a victim of gender violence, and to six times with a disability of 65 % or more.

3

Why the IPREM here is 8,400 € and not 7,200 €

A multiple of the IPREM does not on its own say how much money it is, because the indicator has two annual figures: 7,200 € over twelve payments and 8,400 € where the rule invoking it referred to the minimum wage. Article 8.2.b) of Royal Decree 326/2026 settles it expressly: income is converted «into a number of times the Public Multiple-Effect Income Indicator (IPREM), referred to 14 payments». From that come the 42,000 € of the general threshold, the 46,200 € of the 5.5 band and the 50,400 € of the six band. And from it comes the measure of the change: the Bono’s three times the IPREM were 25,200 €, so the ceiling has widened by 16,800 € a year without the IPREM itself moving a euro since 2023.

4

The rent ceiling, and the rule that penalises small towns

Article 133.1.e) puts the maximum rent at 1,000 € a month for a home and 600 € for a room in a shared flat. The Bono stopped at 600 € and 300 €, which is why in the cities where it was most searched for it was close to unusable. But the next rule runs the other way: if the tenancy is in a municipality or settlement of 10,000 inhabitants or fewer, the ceilings drop to 500 € and 250 €. The Bono drew no distinction by size of municipality, so in a small town a rent between 500 and 600 € qualified under the Bono and does not qualify under the 2026 aid. Each region may raise those ceilings under article 135, but only after signing an agreement with the Ministry of Housing in the monitoring committee.

5

How much you get, and the cap that inverts the comparison

Article 137 grants «aid of at most 300 euros, limited to 60 % of the monthly rent or price», and 200 € under the same limit if what you rent is a room. Article 11 of Royal Decree 42/2022 gave 250 € «limited to the monthly amount of the rent», that is up to 100 %. That difference in cap makes the two aids cross at a definite point: 250 divided by 0.60 is a rent of 416.67 €, and below that rent the Bono paid more. On a 300 € room the Bono gave 250 € and the new aid gives 180 €. Above the crossing the relationship inverts, and above 600 € the Bono simply did not reach. The term improves too: article 134 gives two years extendable by up to two more, while article 12 of the previous decree gave two years and provided for no extension at all.

6

The same plan has another rent aid, and you have to choose

Articles 115 to 120 regulate a general rent aid with no age limit, and articles 118 and 136 make the two incompatible with each other and with any other public help towards rent. They share the multiple of five times the IPREM and the same rent ceilings of 1,000 € and 600 €, and they differ in three things. Whose income counts: article 116.1.c) adds the income of everyone whose habitual residence is the home, while 133.1.d) counts only the applicant, except in room lets, where both look at the tenant alone. How much: a base of 250 € that the regional call may raise up to 40 % of the rent depending on dependants or disability, against 300 € capped at 60 %. And whom the home-ownership exclusion reaches: article 116.2 looks at the applicant or anyone resident in the home, and 133.2 at the applicant only.

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The two exclusions and the effective date

Article 133.2 excludes anyone who owns or holds a usufruct over a home in Spain, with closed exceptions where it cannot be lived in because of separation or divorce, for any other cause beyond their control, or because it is inaccessible owing to a disability of 33 % or more; anyone related to the landlord within the first or second degree by blood or marriage; and anyone who is a partner or shareholder of the landlord, save for non-profit housing co-operatives. Nationality is no longer required in the aid’s own article but in the plan’s general rules, at article 8.2.a). And there is a date worth knowing before writing off a contract signed early in the year: the first additional provision allows this aid to be granted with effect from 1 January 2026, four months before the plan itself came into force.

Worked example

Someone aged 30, with 24,000 € of their own annual income, renting a flat for 850 € a month in a city. Their income is below the 42,000 € threshold and their rent below 1,000 €, so they qualify. Sixty per cent of 850 € is 510 €, above the maximum, so they draw the full 300 €: 3,600 € a year and 7,200 € over the two years of the award. Under the Bono Alquiler Joven that same person would not have qualified at all, because their rent exceeded the 600 € ceiling. If instead they rented a room for 300 €, the new aid would give them 180 € (60 % of 300) where the Bono gave 250 €.

Frequently asked questions

Does the Bono Alquiler Joven still exist?
Royal Decree 42/2022, which created it, has not been expressly repealed, but the aid granted from 24 April 2026 is a different one: the rent aid for young people’s emancipation in articles 132 to 137 of Royal Decree 326/2026. The new plan’s preamble refers to the Bono in the past tense and the two aids are incompatible with each other. Whether your region still has a Bono call open is a regional fact to check on its portal.
How much income may I have?
Up to five times the IPREM referred to 14 payments, that is 42,000 € a year. The threshold rises to 5.5 times (46,200 €) with a recognised disability of 33 % or more or as the child of a victim of gender violence, and to six times (50,400 €) with a disability of 65 % or more. The Bono stopped at three times, 25,200 €.
Does my flatmates’ income count?
No. Article 133.1.d) measures «the annual income of the beneficiary». The Bono did add it: its article 6.1.d) included everyone whose habitual residence was the home, whether or not they appeared as parties to the contract. Note that the plan’s other rent aid, the one in article 116, does add it.
What is the maximum rent?
1,000 € a month for a home and 600 € for a room in a shared flat. In municipalities or settlements of 10,000 inhabitants or fewer they drop to 500 € and 250 €. Each region may raise them under article 135, but only after a prior agreement with the Ministry of Housing.
Exactly how much is paid?
Up to 300 € a month for a home and up to 200 € for a room, limited to 60 % of what you pay in rent. To draw the full 300 € you need a rent of 500 € or more. The Bono gave 250 € with no percentage cap, so below a rent of 416.67 € it paid more than the current aid.
For how long?
Article 134 grants the aid for two years and allows it to be extended, subject to the region’s agreement, by a further period equal to or shorter than two more years, provided the requirements still hold. The Bono gave two years and its article 12 provided for no extension.
Can I apply if I own a home?
No, except in the closed cases of article 133.2.a): that you cannot dispose of it because of separation or divorce, that you cannot live in it for another cause beyond your control, or that it is inaccessible to you because of a recognised disability of 33 % or more. Nor can you apply if you rent from a relative within the first or second degree.
What if I signed the contract before the plan existed?
The first additional provision allows aid under this line to be granted with effect from 1 January 2026, even though Royal Decree 326/2026 did not come into force until 24 April. A contract signed in the first months of 2026 may be covered; the exact deadlines are set by each regional call.
Can I draw this aid and a council one at the same time?
Article 136 forbids it as a general rule: it is not compatible with any other rent aid under this plan, nor with any granted by regions, local authorities or other administrations. The exception is closed cases of particular vulnerability, among them victims of gender or sexual violence, of trafficking, single-parent families, and people evicted or homeless.
Does this calculator apply for the aid?
No. The application goes to the region or city of Ceuta or Melilla where the home is, through its own call, and article 138 requires those calls to be open continuously and permanently. This tool checks the requirements and the figures the State sets, which are the same across the common territory.

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