Social Security benefits and social economic aid

The beneficiaries of the Welfare Benefits are:
 
A) Sea workers included in the scope of application Special Social Security Scheme for Sea Workers.

B) Family members and those persons assimilated as family members by the following order:

• The spouse or relatives by blood, affinity or adoption up to the second degree inclusive, who live with the workers and are their dependent, except when the fact that they are not cohabiting, in the case of children, arises from a court ruling of divorce or separation.
• Persons who, although they are not their spouse, have a relationship of a similar standing and are a dependent cohabiting partner. In order to be a beneficiary of these grants they must prove a minimum of one year of uninterrupted cohabitation.
• The beneficiaries included in the foregoing sections following the death of the entitlement holder and by the stipulated order.

• Be affiliated or in a situation assimilated to affiliation in the Social Security Special Scheme for Sea Workers, during the occurrence of the contingency or protected situation, without prejudice to the provisions of article 40.4 of the revised text of Laws 116/1969, of 30 December and 24/1972, of 21 June, which governs the Social Security Special Scheme for Sea Workers.

• Prove that they are currently in one of the protected situations.
   
  

Applications must be submitted at the Provincial Directorates or Local Offices of the Social Marine Institute, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 38.4 of Law 30/1992, of 26 November, on the Legal Framework for Public Administration and Common Administrative Procedure, in accordance with the form published in the Employment and Social Security Order (TASS) 29/2008, of 15 January.