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The Social Security System is a set of Regimes through which the State guarantees the personsincluded in their field of application, due to the fact they carry out a professional activity or fulfil the requirements demanded in the non-contributive modality, as well as the family members or assimilated persons they have in their charge, suitable protection in the contingencies and situations defined by the law.
Regardless of gender, marital status or profession and for the purposes of the benefits in the contributive modality, all Spanish people who reside in Spain, and foreigners who reside or are legally in Spain, are included in the Social Security's field of application, as long as, in both cases, they carry out their activity in the national territory and are included in one of the following sections.:
The Social Security System is made up of the General Regime and Special Regimes
Within the General Regime of the Social Security, there are also Special Collective Systems with peculiarities in matters of affiliation and contribution:
The Special System of fruit, vegetables and the vegetable preserve industry
Special System for Resin Industry
Special System for extraordinary hostelry services
Special System for handling and packaging fresh tomato, carried out by harvester/exporters
Special System of intermittent permanent employees in cinema, dance halls, night-clubs and discotheques
Special System of intermittent permanent employees in market research and public opinion
The Social Security System also includes the following Special Regimes.
Currently they are:
Special Agrarian Regime