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- Early retirement
The type of retirement that is awarded in certain cases before reaching the legal age of 65, with or without the application of reduction percentages to their total amount. In this way, firstly the normal retirement age of 65 may be lowered and retirement may be reached earlier in the case of groups or professional activities of an exceptionally painful, dangerous, toxic or unhealthy nature, which are recognised as so in the applicable law. Secondly, the minimum age can also be reduced in the case of persons with a degree of disability greater than or equal to 65%. Likewise, workers over the age of 60 who were members of a mutual society on or before 1/1/1967 (or equivalent date) are eligible for the retirement pension with the applicable reduction coefficients, in accordance with the rules of transitional law. Finally, pensions may be granted to workers over the age of 61 who have at least 30 years of proven contributions to the Social Security, have been registered as job seekers for 6 months and have stopped working at their previous job for a reason that cannot be attributed to them. - Early Retirement Assistance
Its purpose is to allow the worker, prior to reaching the normal age for accessing the retirement pension, to receive an amount equal to the pension that the worker would have been eligible for if he/she had reached the age to collect it at the moment the unemployment situation occurred. It is granted in situations in which companies carry out workforce reductions as a part of their restructuring plans. It is collective, with mixed financing. - Economic allocation per child or minor in foster care
Non-contributory family financial benefit, which is granted under specific conditions, per child under 18 years of age or, when over that age, affected by a degree of disability greater than or equal to 65%, under the care of the beneficiary, whatever the legal nature of the relationship, as well as for children in permanent or pre-adoptive foster care. - Economic Benefits
Monetary rights which correspond to the beneficiary when the conditions demanded for its acquisition are met. - Economic Coexistence Unit
In order to determine the requirement of lack of or insufficient income, for the purposes of accessing non-contributory retirement and disability pensions, it is necessary to check whether or not the beneficiary lives with other family members. A financially codependent unit exists in all cases in which the beneficiary lives with other persons, whether they are beneficiaries or not, linked to them by marriage or blood relationship up to the second degree. - Economically dependent self-employed persons
Workers who perform a for-profit economic or professional activity, regularly, personally, directly and predominantly for a natural person or legal body, called the client, on whom they economically depend due receiving from that natural person or legal body at least 75% of their earned income and income from economic or professional activities. - Employer
Any individual or company, whether its activity is for profit or not, for whom individuals that are included in the range of application of any Social Security Scheme perform services as salaried workers. - Employment Enclave
The aim is to achieve greater integration of disabled persons in the ordinary labour market. It consists of a contract entered into between a company in the ordinary labour marker and a special employment centre, to carry out works and services that have a direct relation to the normal activity of the company and, in order to carry out these works and services, a group of disabled workers from a special employment centre will temporarily travel to the work centre of the participating company. - Employment Periods
In EU Law, the periods defined or accepted as such by the legislation under which they have been covered, as well as all the associated periods to the extent that they are acknowledged by this legislation as being equivalent to the employment periods. - Employment Termination
Cessation of the working relationship and its justification in writing. It is an obligatory requirement, along with others, to access the right to some of the Social Security benefits. - Enforcement
Method of enforcement of administrative decisions, which implies the prerogative of the Administrative Office arising from the enforcement of these decisions. This enables the Administrative Office of the Social Security, in the cases where it has to make a cash payment, to resort to enforcement collection proceedings. - Enforcement Order
After the regulation payment period has expired and the debt claim has been finalised through administrative proceedings or settlement decision, as applicable, but the debt has not been paid, enforcement proceedings are started through the issuance of an enforcement order, which states the debt pending payment and the corresponding surcharge. The enforcement order, issued by the competent body, which represents sufficient enforceable title for the initiation of enforcement proceedings by the Treasury General of the Social Security and has the same enforceability as court rulings to proceed against the assets and rights of the parties required to pay the debt. In notification of the enforcement order the party responsible for the debt is warned that if the demanded debt is not paid within 15 days following its receipt or publication, the accrued late payment interest will be payable and their assets will be seized. - Equal Treatment
The principle of equal treatment is understood to mean that there shall be no discrimination whatsoever on the grounds of sex, both direct and indirect, with particular reference to a specific situation (marriage, family, |etc.) - European Community
One of the 3 European Communities, the most important, created by the Treaty of Rome of 25 March 1957, originally named the European Economic Community, which Spain joined in 1986. Following the Treaty of Maastricht it was called the European Community, and today it is the European Union, comprised of 27 countries. - European Health Card
This is a document issued by the INSS or the ISM, in accordance with the Community Regulations on Social Security, with an independent nature (it is personal and non-transferable) and allows its holders to access health services in the public health network of the member State they reside in, whether for work, studies, tourism, etc. |etc. Nevertheless, when the move to another country different from the insured one is made in order to receive medical treatment, the interested party must obtain form E112 (case of authorised patient). - European Union
The European Union (EU) is a family of democratic European countries, who have promised to work together towards peace and prosperity. It is not a State destined to replace the current States, but it is more than any other international organisation. In fact, the EU is unique. Its member States have created common institutions in which they delegate part of their sovereignty, so that decisions can be taken democratically about specific matters of common interest, on a European scale. This union of sovereignties is also called "European Integration". The EU has five institutions, each one with a specific function La UE cuenta con cinco instituciones, cada una de ellas con una función específica: the European Parliament (elected by the citizens of the Member States); the Council of the European Union (it represents the Governments of the member States); the European Commission (motor and executive organism); the Tribunal of Justice (guarantees the fulfilment of the law); and the Accounts Tribunal (carries out the control of legality and regularity in the management of the EU budget). These institutions are accompanied by another five important bodies: The European Economic and Social Committee (expresses the opinion of the organised civil society with regard to economic and social questions); The Regions Committee (expresses the opinions of the regional and local authorities); European Central Bank (responsible for the monetary policy and the management of the Euro); European Peoples Defender (deals with the reports by the citizens about the inappropriate management of any institution or organism in the EU); European Investments Bank (contributes to achieving the EU's objectives by financing investment projects). The Rule of Law is fundamental for the European Union. All the decisions and procedures of the EU are based on Treaties, which are agreed by all the countries in the EU. Initially, the EU was made up of only six countries: Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In 1973 Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom joined; in 1981 Greece joined; in 1986 Spain and Portugal joined; and in 1995 Austria, Finland and Sweden joined. In 2004 the largest extension took place, with the joining of the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Solvakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Malta and Poland. Finally in 2007, Romania and Bulgaria joined. In the first years of its existence, a large part of the co-operation between the countries in the EU referred to trade and the economy. Today however, the EU also deals with many other subjects with a direct repercussion on our everyday lives, such as citizens rights; the guarantee of freedom, safety and justice; the creation of jobs; regional development; the protection of the environment; the creation of globalisation in the benefit of all. - Exacerbation of the Permanent Disability
Until the permanently disabled person reaches the age of 65 (unless the disability is caused by professional illness), the Administration, the interested person, the collaborating entities or the employers responsible for the benefits may request revision due to exacerbation of the degree of disability, in accordance with the established procedure. - Exclusion Period
Minimum contributory period required, barring exceptions, among other requirements, to earn the right to Social Security benefits. - Executive Committees
Supervise and control the application of the General Council agreements. They consist of nine members who equally represent (3) the Public Administration, the Unions and the Business Organisation. - Exemption from contributions
Employers and employees (except those included in the Special Schemes for Agricultural Workers and Domestic Employees), as well as self-employed workers included in the Special Schemes for Sea Workers and Self-Employed Workers, are exempt from making contributions to the Social Security for common contingencies, except for temporary disability arising from these contingencies (employees) and except for temporary disability and occupational contingencies (self-employed, where appropriate), when workers are over 65 years of age and have 35 years or more certified years of effective contributions to the Social Security If on reaching 65 years of age, the worker does not have 35 years of effective contributions, the exemption will be applicable as from the date on which the 35 years of effective contributions are certified. - Expiry
Lapse of time after which the rights and actions not carried out expire, if no valid interruption exists. - Expiry
Decline or loss of the right to receive the benefits in the specified period of time (one year from notification of lump sum benefit grants and one year for periodical benefits from the end of the monthly payment). The period may not be interrupted. - Extension of Effects of Temporary Disability
When the expiry of the temporary disability is produced by the passing of the maximum time period set legally or by medical discharge with a declaration of permanent disability, the effects of the situation of temporary disability are extended until the permanent disability is qualified. At this time the economic benefits will begin, unless they are greater than those that the worker was receiving, in which case they will be backdated to the time when the temporary disability expired. Nevertheless, in the event that the need for medical treatment persists due to the expected recovery or improvement in the worker's condition, with a view to their returning to work, the medical condition of the interested party that made it advisable to delay the classification may be delayed for the required period. Under no circumstances can this period go beyond the 24 months following the date on which the temporary disability began. - Extension of Working Life
Continuing to work after reaching the legally established age for accessing ordinary retirement (65 years old), which is incentivised through measures such as the increase in the percentage applied to the regulatory base to calculate retirement pensions or the exemption from certain contributions items.
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