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Starting from 1 October 2021, self-employed workers that obliged to suspend are seen all its activities as a result of an adopted resolution by the statutory authority as a measure of containment in the propagation of the virus COVID-19, or they maintain for the same reasons the suspension of its initiated activity before the listed date, will have right to a financial assistance for cessation of activity of extraordinarynature, in the terms that are established in this precept, provided that they meet following requirements:

Be members and in registration andn 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, at least thirty calendar days before the date of the resolution that agrees the suspension of the activity and, in any case, before its start date when this would have been decreed before 1 October 2021.

You must be up to date with the payment of social security contributions. However, if on the date of the suspension of the activity this requirement is not met, the management body will invite the self-employed worker 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. 

2. The amount of the provision will be of 70% of the minimum base of contribution that it corresponds for the developed activity. However, when persons united by family bond or similar unit of coexistence until the first degree of kinship by consanguinity or affinity live in the same home, and two or more members are entitled to this extraordinary cessation of activity benefit, the amount of each benefit shall be 40%. 

3. The right to the provision will be born from the next day to the adoption of the measure of adopted activity close by the statutory authority, or from 1 October 2021 when it remains the suspension of initiated activity before this date. 

4. During the time that remains the suspended activity will remain the registration in the corresponding special scheme being the disburdened self-employed worker of the obligation of paying contributions. The obligation to pay contributions will be waived from the first day of the month in which the activity closure measure is taken, or from 1 October 2021, if the suspension of activity prior to this date remains, until the last day of the month following the date of the lifting of this measure, or until 28 February 2022, whichever is the earlier.
   
   The period in which the self-employed worker is exempt from the obligation to pay contributions will be understood as time contributed and the contributions corresponding to this time will be paid by the entities from whose budgets the corresponding benefit is covered. 

5. I receive the of the provision will be incompatible with the perception of a remuneration for the development of a work as an employee, unless incomes of the work as an employee are lower than 1.25 times the amount of the MINIMUM WAGE with the performance of another activity on a self-employed basis, with the perception of yields from the society whose activity affected by the close has been seen, as well as with the perception of a provision of Social Security Institute except for anyone who the payee came receiving for being compatible with the performance of the activity that it developed.
   
   Self-employed workers included in the Special Regime for Sea Workers will likewise not be entitled to receive the benefit for cessation of activity if they are also receiving financial assistance for the suspension of the fleet's activities. 

6. The employee members of the associated work cooperatives who have chosen to be self-employed under the corresponding special scheme will also be entitled to this extraordinary benefit, provided that they meet the requirements established in this article. 

7. The management of this benefit will correspond to mutual societies collaborating with the Social Security Institute or the Social Marine Institute. 

8. The perception of this new provision will have a maximum duration of five months, finishing the right to the same one the last day of the month in which remembers the uprising of the measures or on 28 February 2022, if this last date was previous.
   
   The period in which the benefit is received shall not reduce the period to which the beneficiary may have the right to receive subsequent benefits for cessation of activity. 

9. The examination of the regulated provision in this article owe request within the first veintiún calendar days next on the coming into force of the agreement or activity close resolution, or before 21 October when the suspension of activity would have been agreed before 1 October 2021 and was not been receiving the extraordinary benefit mentioned in the article 6 of the Royal Decree-Law 11/2021, of 27 May.
   
   
10. In the benefit application, the interested party must inform the mutual society or the benefit management company of the members that make up the family unit and if any of them is or may be the recipient of the cessation of activity benefit or if they have any other type of income, and likewise, the consent of all members of the family unit for access to tax information should also be recorded. 

In order to accept the application for processing, the interested party shall provide a sworn declaration of income received, if any, as a result of employed work, and authorisation for the Social Security Administration and the mutual societies responsible for managing the benefit to collect from the corresponding tax administration the tax data necessary for the review of the requirements for access to the benefit. All of this without prejudice to the obligation that the recipient of the benefit is required to submit a company certificate and the income tax return to the entity that manages the benefit.