Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards will be able to benefit from free glasses and contact lenses from 2025 thanks to the latest aid from the Social security. People who benefit from this initiative will have to meet a series of requirements to aspire to this type of subsidies that will be part of the national health system in Spain from next year. Everything will be confirmed when it is published in the Official State Gazette. From there, a program already carried out in other countries in the region will be carried out. European Union as France or Germany.
Glasses and contact lenses will be free in Spain from next year 2025. Depending on the economic situation and age of the person, the discount will be greater or lesser, but everything indicates that for next year it will be made official through the Official State Gazette an initiative that will impact millions of Spaniards.
This was confirmed by Mónica García, Minister of Health, who clarified that the government had been working for months on this initiative, whose conditions and requirements are unknown. “I think it is something that we agree on from a social and political point of view. It is not possible that the visual or oral health system is not included in the national health system and we are going to work hard to make it a reality in 2025,” he said at the time.
The Minister of Health placed vulnerable people and children as the people to whom this aid will be intended, which will be part of the public subsidies of the National Health System in Spain. “We want to start with the most vulnerable people and those who have the least possibilities to access this right. And also for the most infantile populations, who somehow have a greater turnover or a greater expenditure in this regard. But we are studying it with all the actors,” said Mónica García.
Free glasses and contact lenses in Spain
This initiative, which will come into force from 2025, will give a break to the pockets of Spaniards who pay an average of 197 euros for glasses with frames. Regarding contact lenses, the average cost is 120 euros. Visual health problems affect 55.3% of young people between 18 and 34 years old and 62.3% of university students. If in the young population it exceeds 50%, this percentage increases when we talk about the older population.
However, in Europe They have focused on the youngest as the main beneficiaries of this aid. For example, in France, over-16s can renew their glasses for free every two years, while in Germany glasses and contact lenses are free for under-18s. Adults with serious vision problems can also benefit from these advantageous discounts. As for United Kingdom There are also great discounts to access these basic tools for people with vision health problems.
Conditions and requirements
When this help from Social security to be official in the Official State Gazette The conditions and requirements for free access to contact lenses and glasses will be known. Considering the line followed by the rest of the countries of Europe, everything indicates that this aid will go to minors who belong to families close to vulnerability and to adults who have serious vision problems and who demonstrate that they do not have the income to be able to face this investment.
Becoming official from 2025, the Ministry of Health This will open a channel for millions of Spaniards who need it to access this aid that will provide economic relief to hundreds of thousands of citizens who are experiencing economic difficulties. Although Pedro Sanchez If it is said that the Spanish economy is running like a rocket, the truth is that the high cost of daily life is harming millions of working Spaniards. This is perhaps the worst summary of today’s Spain, in which those who are registered as employees suffer economic difficulties.
