Economic benefit for multiple births or adoptions

The people meet the following requirements:

• Legally residing in Spain. This condition will be considered to have been met if workers relocated by their company outside Spain are in an assimilated contributor situation and make contributions to the relevant Spanish Social Security scheme.

• They are not entitled to the same types of benefits in any other social protection scheme.

• If the parents or adoptive parents live together, the recipient will be:

• Either one of them, by mutual agreement. It is assumed that this agreement exists when the benefit is requested by one of the recipients. 
• If there is no agreement, the mother will be the recipient.

• If the parents or foster parents do not live together, the recipient will be the person who has guardianship and custody of the children.

• When the triggering individuals lose their parents or foster parents or are abandoned, the natural person legally responsible for the born or adopted children will be the recipient.

• When the circumstances necessary for receiving family benefits are met in both parents or adoptive parents or, where appropriate, foster parents, the right to receive the benefit will only be recognized in one of the parents.

• The benefit will be incompatible with parents or adoptive parents or, where appropriate, foster parents receiving any similar type of benefit in the remaining social protection schemes.

• If one of the parents or adoptive parents is included, based on their activity performed or their status as a pensioner, in a Social Security scheme, the appropriate benefit will be recognized by this scheme so long as this person meets the requirements necessary for being a recipient of this benefit.

• When recipients have the right to the same benefit from several social protection schemes for the same originator, they must choose one of them.