Social Security

Beneficiaries

The daughters/sons or sisters/brothers over 22 years of age, single, widowed, legally separated or divorced, who do not fulfil the conditions to be pensioners but meet the following requirements:

• To have lived with the  originating contributor  at his/her expenses 2 years before to death or since the death of the family member he/she lived with, if it occurred during that period.
  
• Not to have the right to a public pension.
  
• To lack any means of subsistence, due to having an income equal to or below the minimum guaranteed wage and family members with the obligation or possibility of providing them with food.
  
  Pursuant to articles 142 and 143 of the Civil Code, spouses, ascendants and descendants are obliged to "provide food"; siblings are only obliged to provide "the necessary support for life" and are therefore excluded from the obligation to provide food.

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Amount / Payment

• The amount of the subsidy is obtained by applying a percentage to the regulating base.

Percentage: 20% of the regulating base, calculated in the same way as widow's pensions.

• It is paid over 12 months, including two extraordinary payments.

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Compatibilities / Incompatibilities

• It is compatible with the widowhood and orphanhood pensions caused by the same event.


• It is incompatible with the holder collecting any public pension and earning income of any kind that exceeds the amount of the minimum inter-professional salary in effect at any time, calculated annually.

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Termination of benefits

• Due to the maximum duration period ending.


• For death.


• For checking that the missing worker did not die in an accident.

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