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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:

    • Benefits for temporary disability due to common illnesses, non-work-related injuries and maternity.
    • Benefits for permanent disability, old age, death and survival.
    • Benefits for work-related injuries and occupational disease.
For Venezuela:

To Social Security legislation on the following benefits:

    • Temporary Disability.
    • Partial or total disability.
    • Old Age.
    • Survivors.
    • Death grant.
For these benefits, you must be aware that:
    • To get the contributory benefits included in the Agreement, periods of insurance fulfilled in Spain and Venezuela can be added together.
    • Contributory economic benefits can be collected regardless of whether the interested party is resident or is currently in Spain or Venezuela.
    • 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.

Temporary Disability

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:

  • 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 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 Venezuela.

Work-related Injuries and Occupational Diseases

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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