Social Security

RED News Bulletin 2012/3

30 April 2012

It can be found in the RED News area of the RED News Bulletin 2012/3 and includes the following sections:

• Pre-doctoral contract.
  
• Workers aged 23 or over, actual days worked in the Special Agricultural System.
  
• Detection of differences for workers in TC2 in the Special Agricultural System making contributions using the actual days worked method.
  
• Out-of-work protection of contributions for shipbuilders who provide services on the boat.
  
• Collective  agreement code for workers to whom no agreement applies.
  
• New forms FR.102A and FR.102U for the application for registration, removal or change of details of secondary users of an authorisation for the RED System.
  

Correction of errors in RED News Bulletin 2012/3 of 30 April 2012.

4 May 2012

There has been the following amendment to the RED News Bulletin 2012/3 of 30 April 2012:

The "Instructions for showing a pre-doctoral contract in the affiliation and contributions area" section is drafted as follows:

Instructions for showing a pre-doctoral contract in the affiliation and contributions area

Pre-doctoral contracts that are registered under the terms of Law 14/2011 may be entered into as of 2
June 2012.

They will be identified in the affiliation area using Employment Relationship of a Special Nature 9921 (RED News Bulletin 2011/13). The CONTRACT TYPE field must show a value of 401 and the CONTRIBUTION
GROUP must be between 1 and 10.

The reduction being referred to in the Eighteenth Additional Provision must be reported in the
FAN file using reduction code CD06 as of June 2012, with the reporting of
RLCE 9921 no longer being necessary.

RED News Bulletin 2012/2

23 March 2012

It can be found in the RED News area of the RED News Bulletin 2012/2 and includes the following sections:

• Main new features arising from the publication of ESS Order/184/2012 of 2 February, which implements the legal rules for Social Security contributions, unemployment, out-of-work protection, the wage guarantee fund, occupational training for 2012 (BOE of 7 February 2012).
• Setting of the contribution bases for 2012, for workers in the Special Scheme for Sea Workers in the second and third groups.
• National minimum wage.
• Detection of differences for workers in TC2 in the Special Agricultural Scheme making contributions using the actual days worked method.
• Main new features arising from the publication of Royal Decree LAW 3/2012, of 10 February, on Urgent Measures for Labour Market Reform.
• Extension of the regulation period for paying in Social Security contributions due to the stoppage in fishing activity in Moroccan waters.
• Removal of the SMS mobile service that provides notification of the existence of messages in the personal mailbox of RED Direct users.

New version of WinSuite

02.02.12

As of 6 February 2012, a new version of WinSuite will be available for users of the RED System, which includes the changes specified in the RED News Bulletin 2012/1 of 26 January, on the total segments of "Other Contributions", for the Special Agricultural System.

Therefore, contribution account codes for this new Special System which are sent prior to the start-up of this new version will generate errors for these items, although it have no impact whatsoever on the subsequent treatment of files.

In the area of affiliation, this new version includes the "end date of holidays" in the printing of worker termination decisions.

Special System for Self-Employed Agricultural Workers

With regard to contributions in the Special Agricultural Scheme, we would like to inform you that the following contribution base validations are being implemented:

• The maximum contribution limit will be set at 1,800 euros, both for common contingencies and occupational contingencies.
• The monthly minimum bases will be the same as in the General Scheme. Contributions for actual days worked, will be the same as those for monthly contributions divided by 23.

RED News Bulletin 2012/1

26 January 2012

It can be found in the RED News area of the RED News Bulletin 2012/1 and includes the following sections:

• Inclusion of the area of contributions of the Special Agricultural System in the RED Direct System.
  
  
• Changes introduced by Royal Decree-Law 20/2011, of 30 December, on Urgent Measures Regarding Budgeting, Tax and Financial Matters for the Correction of the Public Deficit (B.O.E. 31 December 2011).
  
  
• An extension of the deadline for recording acquisitions and terminations of active contributor status in the Special Agricultural System.
  
  
• A change in the way Special Agricultural System deals with exemption from contributions due to unemployment.
  
  
• A new value for the special employment report.
  
  
• Ertzaintza corps retirement.

Extension of the deadline for recording acquisitions and terminations of active contributor status in the Special Agricultural Systeme

24.01.12

The RED New Bulletin 2011/13 stated that acquisitions and terminations of active contributor status entered in scheme 0163, where the actual date was between 1 and 20 January and which were sent between 9 and 20 January, would be considered as having been submitted on time, even though they appeared as being late.

It states that the deadline for reporting these procedures has been extended to 31 January 2012. As a result you will be able to record these procedures, the actual date of which is between 1 and 31 January, and they will be considered as having been submitted on time up to the 31st.

RED News Bulletin 2011/13

28 December 2011

In the RED News area you can find the RED News Bulletin 2011/13 , which includes the following sections:

• Reduction coefficient for contributions for common contingencies relating to civil servants and other new employees included in the General Scheme as of 1 January 2011.
   
• Instructions for fulfilment of contributions relating to civil servants and other new employees included in the General Scheme as of 1 January 2011.
  
  
• Out-of-work self-employed workers.
  
  
• Inclusion in out-of-work protection for shipbuilders who provide services on the boat.
  
  
• Supplementary measures to alleviate the damages caused by the seismic movements that occurred in Lorca on 11 May 2011 and to adopt tax and employment measures for the Isla de el Hierro.  
  
  
• Extension of the regulation deadline for paying in Social Security contributions over the November 2011 and December 2011 payment periods for companies who hire employees participating in training programmes.  
  
  
• Inclusion of young people carrying out graduate work experience in companies without an employment contract in the Social Security.  
  
  
• Royal Decree 1707/2011, of 18 November, governing external academic work experience for university students.
  
  
• Allowances for Social Security contributions for employment contracts entered into with disabled persons by the Spanish National Organisation for the Blind (Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles - ONCE).  
  
  
• Adoption of Social Security measures for working people affected by the E. coli bacteria crisis.
  
  
• Law 28/2011, of 22 September, which gives rise to the integration of the Special Agricultural Scheme in the General Scheme of the Social Security.
  
  
• A new value for the "Special Employment Report" field.
  
  
• A new value for the "Worker Group" field.
  
  
• A new affiliation feature: average workforce with active contributor status report.
  
  
• New feature in RED authorisation management services: view affiliation numbers assigned to an authorisation.
  
  
• Shutdown of operations in the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers.
  
  
• New version of WinSuite32 7.6.0.

Return to Operation of the Service for Affiliation/Termination of Affiliation/Change of Details for Secondary Users

26.12.11

We would like to inform you that the defects in the service for Affiliation/Termination of Affiliation/Change of Details for Secondary Users have been rectified and therefore, as of today, it is back in operation.

RED News Bulletin 2011/12

7 December 2011

The RED News Bulletin 2011/12 is now available in the RED news area. It contains the following items:

• Law 28/2011, of 22 September, which gives rise to the integration of the Special Agricultural Scheme in the General Scheme of the Social Security.
  
  
• General Characteristics of the Special Agricultural System.
  
  
• Employer registration and worker acquisition and termination of active contributor status.
  
  
• Special features of contributions to the Special Agricultural Scheme.
  
  
• Instructions for filling in the FAN file.
  

RED News Bulletin 2010/08

22 July 2010

It can be found in the RED  News area of the  RED News Bulletin 2010/08 and includes the following section:

• Contributions of public sector employees included in the General Scheme of the Social Security, as provided for in Royal Decree-Law 8/2010 of 20 May, which adopts special measures for the reduction of the public deficit.