Article 8 (RDL 2/2021) Extraordinary benefit of cessation of activity for seasonal workers.

 The period for requesting this benefit has ended.

The article 8 establishes an extraordinary benefit of cessation of activity for seasonal workers that develop its activity at least during three months in the first middle of the year. 

Seasonal workers are considered those self-employed workers whose only work throughout years 2018 and 2019 would have been developed in the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers or in the Special Plan for Workers of the Sea during a minimum of four months and a maximum of six in each of the years. 

It will be considered that the self-employed worker has developed an only work in 2018 and 2019 provided that, of credit registration state in a regime of social security as an employee, this registration does not exceed 120 days throughout those years. 

Requirements to cause right to the provision: 

1. a) Credit registration state and quoted in the Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers or in the Special Plan for Workers of the Sea as a freelance worker during a minimum of four months and a maximum of six months of each one of the years 2018 and 2019, provided that that temporary frame covers a minimum of two months in the first middle of the year. 
2. b) Not credit state in registration or assimilated to the registration as an employee in the regime of Social Security Institute corresponding more than 60 days during the first half of the year 2021. 
3. c) Not to obtain during the first middle of the year 2021 some accountable net income fiscally that they exceed 6,650 euros. 
4. d) To find up to date in the payment from the fees to the Social Security Institute. However, if this requirement is not met, the management body will invite you to pay the amount due within a non-extendable period of thirty calendar days. The regularisation of the due amounts will generate full effect as regards acquiring the right to the protection. 

Amount of the benefit: it will be the one equivalent to 70 per cent of the minimum base of contribution that it corresponds for the activity carried out in the Special Regime of the Social Security Institute of the Freelance workers or Self-employed workers or, where applicable, in the Special Regime of the Social Security Institute of the sea workers. 

Management: The management of this provision will correspond to the collaborative mutual societies with the Social Security Institute or to the Social Marine Institute.

A procedure of examination is established provisional and a subsequent review of provisions. 

Waiver of the benefit:

• The self-employed worker that has requested the payment of the regulated provision in this article will be able to:
  • If it is waived it at any time before 30 April 2021, the waiver takes effect the month following its communication.
  • Returning the benefit for cessation of activity on one's own initiative, without needing to wait for the mutual society collaborating with the Social Security Institute or the management company, when it is deemed that the income that could be received in the period of the activity may exceed the thresholds established in section 2.c) with the corresponding loss of the right to benefit.

If you want to present the renunciation to the provision:

• Download you and it fills the document of renunciation
• Send it to the administrative mailbox of your centre closer