Special System for Domestic Employees

This Special System for Domestic Employees includes workers subject to the special employment relationship of the family household service, regulated by Royal Decree 1620/2011, of 14 November.

Excluded from this special system are workers who provide domestic services that are not contracted directly by the owners of the family home, but through companies, in accordance with the provisions of the seventeenth additional provision of Law 27/2011, of 1 August, on the updating, adaptation and modernisation of the Social Security system.

For more information on the procedures to be followed if you want to register a domestic employee, consult the "Employment in the home " section available on the Social Security General Treasury Portal.

Person responsible

From 1 January 2023, the person responsible for paying contributions is the employer, in accordance with the rules laid down in the Social Security General Scheme.

Method of payment

The fees shall be made by direct debit or bank transfer.

Time frame

The statutory deadline for payment of each month's fees is the month following the month in which they are due.

The information on the contribution applicable to the Special System for Domestic Workers can be consulted in the section Workers > Contribution/Collection of Workers > Contribution bases and rates, in the section "Special System for Domestic Workers".