Social Security

• Persons included in the General Scheme, who are affiliated and have active or assimilated contributor status , who meet the legally established requirements for age, minimum contribution period and triggering event.

The following will be considered to be assimilated affiliated situations for these purposes::

• The legal status of unemployed, totally and receiving benefits, as well as when workers have been made voluntarily unemployed, once contributory and welfare benefits have been used up, as long as they continue to be registered as unemployed at the employment office.

• The situation of the worker during the period corresponding to paid annual holidays that were not taken before the contract ended.

• Forced leave.

• The period of time when a worker goes on leave to care for a child, foster child or other family members, which exceeds the period considered as an effective contribution period in Article 180 of the LGSS.  

• Transfer of the employee by the company outside of Spain.

• Signing of a special agreement  of any type.

• Non-working periods between seasonal jobs. 

• Prison terms served as a result of the cases outlined in the Act 46/1977, of 15th October, on Amnesty, in the terms regulated by Law 18/1984, of 8th June.

• Periods of receiving benefits equivalent to early retirement and benefits prior to ordinary retirement. 

• The temporary disability situation that continues after the contract has expired.

• The extended conditions  of temporary disability.

• The situation of maternity or paternity that continues after the employment contract has ended or that starts while receiving unemployment benefits.

• In the case of artists and bullfighting professionals, the days considered as effective days of contribution in each calendar year in accordance with the regulations that govern their contributions. These do not correspond to days on which services were provided. The effective days of contribution will also serve to complete the minimum contribution period required to determine the percentage and calculate the regulatory base). 

• In the case of workers affected by toxic shock syndrome who, as a result, stopped their job or professional activity at a particular time during the tax year and have not been able to resume their job during that year, and had active contributor status in one of the Social Security schemes, the assimilated contributor status and common contingencies will be subject to the terms of the scheme that the workers were included in when they finished work.

• The period that the employment contract is suspended due to the worker's decision to stop working as a result of gender-based violence.

• Workers who are affiliated in the Social Security System who, on the date of the triggering event, do not have active contributor or assimilated contributor status, as long as they meet the established age and contribution requirements.

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