Increase your pension by 20% if you are 55 and receiving a contributory permanent disability pension

2023-11-20 11:02:29

If you are receiving a permanent disability pension, you knew that from the age of 55 you can increase the amount of the pension? People who, due to injury or illness, have had to be separated from their job or removed from the world of work, they receive a contributory pension in order to live with dignity. This pension is determined according to the degree of disability, which is determined by Social Security.

How the degree of disability is determined

The Social Security will require the applicant to provide several health reports and in addition, it will go through the Medical Court to assess the degree of permanent disability. It will be this court that will determine whether or not the degree requested and permanent disability is granted.

Depending on the degree of disability, the amount to be charged will vary, as will the conditions of the applicant.

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Degrees of disability

Partial Total Absolute Major disability

Mandarin a worker cannot continue to carry out the tasks in his usual job and must change profession, sectoro, he even has to stop working, it is because he has absolute permanent incapacity or great invalidity.

Great invalidity and absolute permanent incapacity

If you are framed in one of these two situations, the contributory pension will be for life, until reaching the age of retirement of the worker. Even though, from the age of 55, this pension will increase by 20%, as long as we meet certain requirements.

Conditions of the pension for absolute permanent disability

If you are receiving a contributory pension for total permanent disability, you will be charging, monthly, 55% of the regulatory base. And mines, you will be able to work and collect the pension if you are not absolutely disabled for other tasks and trades. For example, if you are collecting this pension as a factory worker, you can work as an administrator and combine work and pension. In case, you start working as a factory worker, your pension will be withdrawn immediately, since, you are disabled to carry out the functions that are determined by this specific office.

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The financial conditions of the pension

It is possible to work and collect the pension, as long as you do it in other jobs, not in the one you have been disabled by illness or injury. But, what if I am receiving two salaries (pension and work) and the result is a rather high monthly salary? Res. You won’t have any problembecause one thing is the salary offered by the company you work for and the other, the contributory pension that belongs to you due to the degree of absolute permanent disability.

I’m turning 55, what will happen to my pension?

When you are about to turn 55 years oldso you have more and start getting paid the contributory pension for absolute permanent disability, immediately, as long as you meet certain requirements, you can request an extra 20% increase, athus arriving at 75% of the regulatory base.

If you meet the requirements, Social Security will update the regulatory base according to the CPI from December to November. From this new basis, the total 75% will be applied. So, an extra 20% is not added to the pension you were already receiving, but is added to the new regulatory base.

A clear example: you are 45 years old and you are receiving a monthly pension of 693 euros because your regulatory base is 1,260 euros. When you turn 55, Social Security will review the CPI and update your regulatory base. In this case, increasing up to 1,300 euros. So, a this new basis, we must apply 75%, resulting in 975 euros per month. This will be the new amount you will receive with the contributory pension for absolute permanent disability.

The average retirement pension in Girona is 10% lower than in Catalonia

The requirements to apply for this 20% increase

You must be 55 years or older

you have to be registered as a job seeker ia there is

In case you are charging one unemployment benefit: arrange o subsidies, you will not be able to request this 20% increase

How to request the extra 20% for my contributory pension

Through the electronic headquarters of the Social Security or in person in its offices. In the case of doing it in person, remember make an appointment online moreover, you will have to download the form that you will find on the Social Security website i fill it with the data you know.

If at some point you return to work, you will have to notify Social Security and automatically, they will take an extra 20% of your pension. If you then become unemployed againwhen you finish unemployment benefits, you can apply again for this 20% increase in the contributory pension for absolute permanent disability.

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