Royal Decree-Law 12/2025, of 28 October
of urgent measures of reactivation, support and prevention in Plan of immediate reply, rebuilding and repositioning when dealing with caused damages for the DANA

 1. Freelance workers or self-employed workers that they came receiving on 31 January 2025 the provision for cessation of activity considered in the article 24 of the Royal Decree-Law 6/2024, of 5 November, will have right to a new extraordinary benefit in the same terms and conditions, for the period between on 1 February to 31 December 2025, provided that they arise following circumstances:

a) That it remains the total cessation or partial, definite or storm, in the activity on a self-employed basis, as a result direct and immediate of caused damages for the DANA that it originated the examination of the right to the provision of cessation of activity.

b) That the self-employed worker did not have perceived the provision ordinary by cessation of activity during that period.

c) The self-employed worker has not worked for someone else during that period.

2. These new provisions for cessation of activity will be able to begin to yield with effects of 1 February 2025, provided that the application is presented within the first veintiún calendar days next on the coming into force of this standard. Otherwise, the benefit will enter effect on the day after the application is filed.

3. The Collaborative Mutual Societies with the Social Security Institute and the Social Marine Institute will recognise provisionally the right to the provision and, starting from 1 March 2026, will proceed to the review of all provisional resolutions. In the event that it is given off that the interested party does not have right to the provision or that the same one was owed to extinguish before 31 December 2025, procedures of claim of the unduly perceived amounts will be initiated, owing also in such cases the payee, to enter the contributions corresponding to everything the period of improper perception of the provision, applying the procedure of collective management of the Social Security System in all its terms. If in the process of review it is checked that the provision has been recognised in the provisional resolution for one of the types, but lack some requirement for justifying and through the test obrante in the dossier, it is verified that the payee gathers from the date of the responsible for fact all requirements for the perception of the provision for another different supposition, the definite resolution will confirm the right to the provision for cessation of activity for the new supposition, in the amounts and conditions planned for the same one.

4. These provisions will be financed through transfers of the State to the Budget of the System of Social Security Institute.

Entry into force.

This Royal Decree-Law will enter vigor the next day to the one of its publication in the «Official State Gazette».

Given on 28 October 2025.

«BOE» number. 260, of 29 October 2025, pages 140895 to 140932 (38 págs.)