Social Security

General Information

The Agreement applies to the following benefits:

For Spain:

To the following contributive benefits from the Social Security System:

• Benefits for permanent disability, old age, death and survival.
• Pensions for work-related injuries and Occupational Diseases.

For Mexico:

To the obligatory and voluntary schemes included in the Social Security Law for:

• Pensions from insurance for disability, old age, giving up work due to extreme old age and death.
• Work-related risk insurance pensions.

For these benefits, you must be aware that:

• To get the contributive benefits included in the Agreement, periods of insurance fulfilled in Spain and Mexico can be added together.
• Contributive economic benefits can be collected regardless of whether the interested party is resident or is currently in Spain or Mexico.
• Each country pays its own benefits directly to the recipient.
• Those who meet the requirements of the legislation of both countries to be entitled to a contributive pension can collect it from both.

Disability, Old Age, Giving Up Work due to Extreme Old Age, Death and Survival

Each country will examine each application for a pension separately in the following way:

• If the interested party is entitled to the pension without the need to add in the periods of insurance in the other country, the corresponding pension will be granted taking into account only its own periods of insurance.

• If the interested party is not entitled to the pension in accordance with the previous paragraph, the periods of accredited insurance from the other country will be added in. The pension will not be for the whole amount but a proportion of the periods of insurance in the country granting it and the sum of the periods for Spain and Mexico.

Work-related Injuries and Occupational Disease

The benefit will be determined by the country whose legislation the worker is subject to on the date when the accident occurred or the disease was contracted.