Social Security

General Information

The Agreement applies to the following benefits:

For Spain:

To the following contributory benefits from the Social Security System:

• Benefits for temporary disability due to common illnesses and non-work-related injuries.
• Benefits for old age.
• Benefits for permanent disability, death and survival due to common illnesses or non-work-related injuries.

For the United States:

The federal programme for Old Age, Survival and Disability Insurance is applicable.

For these benefits, you must be aware that:

• To get the contributive benefits included in the Agreement, periods of insurance fulfilled in Spain and the United States can be added together.

• Contributive economic benefits can be collected regardless of whether the interested party is resident or is currently in Spain or the United States.

• 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 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 the terms of the previous paragraph, the periods of accredited insurance from the other country will be added in. The benefit 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 the United States.