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Benefits included in the Agreement

General Information

The Agreement applies to the following benefits:

For Spain:

To the following contributory benefits from the Social Security System:

  • Health care during maternity, common or occupational diseases and injuries, whether work related or not.
  • Economic benefits for temporary disability due to common illnesses and non-work-related injuries.
  • Economic benefits for maternity.
  • Benefits for permanent disability, retirement, death and survival.
  • Economic benefits for work-related injuries and occupational disease.
  • Family benefit for dependent children.
For Tunisia:

To the legislation on contributory Social Security applicable to wage earners, non-wage-earners and those assimilated for:

  • Social security benefits (illness, maternity and death).
  • Compensation for work-related injuries and occupational diseases.
  • Benefits from disability, old age and survival insurance.
  • Family benefits.
For these benefits, you must be aware that:
  • To get the contributive benefits included in the Agreement, periods of insurance fulfilled in Spain and Tunisia can be added together.
  • Contributive economic benefits can be collected regardless of whether the interested party is resident or is currently in Spain or Tunisia.
  • 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.

Healthcare

Entitlement to health care is granted, according to national legislation, by the country where the worker is insured or by the country that is paying the pension (for pensioners) and, when necessary, the periods of insurance in both countries are added together, as long as they do not overlap.

Normally, health care is provided by the country that recognises it but when workers move to or reside in the other country it can also be received under the following circumstances:

  • Workers insured in one country, and their family members, who move temporarily to their country of origin for paid holidays or authorised leave and need immediate health care.
  • Sick workers who have been authorised to move to another country.
  • Pensioners of the one country and their family members who are currently or have residence in the other country. During a temporary stay, they are only entitled to benefits for immediate needs.
  • Family members of a worker insured in one country and who are resident in another country.

 

Health care is provided: in the country where the recipient is currently present, according to the health legislation, by the Public Health Services of that country and for the time authorised by the institution of the country where the worker is affiliated or that pays his or her pension .

Temporary disability and Maternity

For entitlement to these benefits, the periods of insurance in both countries are added together, if necessary.

Disability, Old Age and Survival

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

  • The competent institution in each country will determine if the interested party is entitled to the pension, taking into account only its own periods of insurance, without adding in those from the other country.
  • Also, it will determine entitlement to the benefit by adding together its own periods of insurance and those from the other country. In this case, 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 Tunisia.
  • Once the entitlement of the interested party has been determined as indicated above, the competent institution in each country will grant and pay the pension that favours the interested party more.

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.

                              



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