ROYAL DECREE-LAW 20/2026 through which urgent measures of work protection are established and social when dealing with forest fires
(Article 6). Measures for the people freelance workers

To those workers that:

• They have the coverage of cessation of activity or they have “flat rate”.

To access the provision will not be necessary the requirement of having 12 months of contribution to the contingency of cessation of activity.

In the event of being associated with the INSS, they should present together with the application of provision, the document of adherence with Mutual Society, being the effects of this adherence from day one of the month in which causes right to the provision of extraordinary cessation.

• They have stopped total or partially in the activity that they carried out on a self-employed basis, whether it is of temporary or definite way, as a result of damages suffered for fire.

The total cessation or partial of the activity owes be consequence of the fire in the affected areas in which civil protective measures has been adopted that affect to the town starting from 22 July 2026.

It can check if its town is one of the recognised affected areas by the Ministry of Domestic Affairs in the following document => (To include access to the trade of the Home Office).

Requirements of access to the provision are the ones specific to the ordinary provision of cessation of activity, but with reductions and conditions that establishes the article 6 of the Royal Decree-Law 20/2026, of 29 July.

Contemplating these reductions, requirements of access to the provision would be the next ones: 

1. Be registered in the Special Regime at the time of to produce the fact responsible for.
2. Have private the coverage of cessation of activity or flat rate.
3. Prove the legal cause of cessation for “force majeure” in agreement establishes the article 6 of the Royal Decree-Law 20/2026, of 29 July, although this accreditation should not be carried out until the review of the recognised provisions provisionally planned starting from 01.01.2027.
4. If the cessation in the occupation is definite:

• • Contribute the document of cancellation in the tax Census of employers, professionals and retenedores and the cancellation in the special scheme of the Social Security Institute in which was classed the applicant. If the activity required the assignment of authorisations or licences office workers, the communication of cancellation application will be accompanied corresponding and, where applicable, its granting, or the agreement of its retreat.
  • Caused credit cancellation in the Special Regime, to subscribe the agreement of activity (article 3 of the Act 3/2023, of 28 February, of Employment) and to prove active availability for the return to the labour market via training activities, of career guidance and promotion of the entrepreneurial activity to those which can call him the public service of employment of the corresponding Autonomous Community, or where applicable the Social Marine Institute.
  • Not fulfilled credit the ordinary age to cause right to the contributory pension of retirement, unless the worker did not have accredited the period of required contribution for this.

5. If the cessation in the occupation is temporary, whether it is total or partial, not caused credit cancellation in the Special Regime.
6. It will be understood that there are reasons for force majeure in the temporary cessation partial when the interruption of the company's activity affects to a sector or work centre, exist a statement of emergency adopted by the competent public authority and a fall of incomes is produced of 75 per cent of the activity of the company in connection with the same period of the monthly previous year and incomes of the self-employed worker not extent the minimum wage or the amount of the base through which came paying contributions if this was inferior
7. Be aware of payment of the contributions to the Special Regime (otherwise, the Mutual Society will invite to put on up to date, in the term improrrogable of 30 days).
8. In the event of having workers in charge, he owe be aware of all Social Security labour obligations with its workers.

This provision appears of following grants:

1. The deposit of a financial assistance whose amount will be calculated applying70% of the average of the bases through which would have been paid contributions during 12 continuing months and immediately prior to the legal situation of cessation, with the application of the maximum limts and minimum calculated on the PUBLIC INDICATOR OF MULTIPLE EFFECT INCOME according to the number of children in charge.

The deposit corresponding to the contribution of the fee for common contingencies only in the event that the cessation in the activity is definite. In the event of temporary cessation supposition total or partial the General Treasury of the Social Security him will exonerate of the payment of the bill of self-employed worker's fees once has him to him recognised provisionally the provision.

2. For the calculation of the benefits base, if they do not appear 12 continuing months and immediately prior to the date of the responsible for fact, will be calculated according to the average of the existing months prior to the date of the responsible forfact.

The article 6 of the Royal Decree-Law 20/2026, of 29 July, establishes a maximum term of 4 months (120 days of provision) from the date of 22.07.2026 or the date in which the cessation of activity was produced as a result of fire to that it adverts the above-mentioned Royal Decree-law.

It will depend on the type of cessation in the activity that is produced.

• If the cessation in the activity was definite, when entailing the cancellation in the Special Regime, there will not be obligation of following paying contributions to the Social Security Institute.
• If the cessation in the activity was temporary, to the duty to remain the registration in the Special Regime, yes will remain the obligation of following paying contributions to the Social Security Institute although the General Treasury of the Social Security exonerates him of the payment of the bill of self-employed worker's fees.

This provision is incompatible with:

• Any other provision of the Social Security Institute that was come receiving or is started to receive, unless the same one was compatible with the activity on a self-employed basis.
• The performance of any other work on a self-employed basis.
• The performance of works as an employee initiated later than the birth of the provision's right for cessation of activity.

On the other hand, yes will be compatible with the works as an employee that were come carrying out before the beginning of the provision's accrued interest for cessation of activity, as long as of the sum of the monthly remuneration average of the last four months immediately prior to the birth of the right and the provision for cessation of activity, result a monthly average amount lower than the amount of the minimum wage in force at the time of the birth of the right.

• Receive aids for paralysation of the fleet.

They will be cause of extinction of the provision:

• Reach the maximum duration planned for the provision.
• In the event that the cessation in the activity is definite, the fulfillment of the ordinary age and of the rest of requirements to access the provision of retirement.
• The death of the payee.
• The re-opening of the activity that has been seen interrupted by the forest fires.

This provision will be able to request until the last day of the next month to the date of the responsible for fact that has caused the cessation of activity.

Presented applications later than this date, also will be recognised, with provisional character, but will be discounted of the period of perception days that they would have passed between the date in which owe have presented the application and the date in which was presented.

To request the provision owe contribute:

• Application form and declaration of Responsibility.
• Model 145 of data communication of the payer (PERSONAL INCOME TAX) with the exception of Basque Country and Navarre .
• Ownership or joint proprietorship Supporting Document banking.
• Photocopy of the Identity document (DNI-NIE-TIE) or Passport, (for both faces), in the event of having her.

In the coming days, we will make a digital platform available to assist with your application. It will be able to choose her even when is not user registered of our web portal.

In the meantime download the available form and it prepares the minimum documentation necessary to to carry out the procedure.

Besides the indicated documentation previously, in order to be able to request the provision owe formalise the corresponding adherence (download the document) with this mutual society, that it will include the coverage of the occupational contingencies, temporary disability derived from common contingencies and the provision of cessation of activity that up to now had covers with the National Social Security Institute and with the Public Service of State Employment.

Where applicable, when not being associated with this Mutual Society at the time of the fact responsible for, he owe contribute all the requested documentation via this website mailbox:

BuzonCeseActividadMedidasExtraordinariasRD@mutuauniversal.net