THE Social security Good news for one of the groups that has suffered the most from precariousness in recent years: scholarship holders. Student interns will be able to use the benefits of any worker for contribution purposes and those who have benefited at some point from a scholarship to work after 2021 will also be able to claim their contribution days for a maximum period of five years. Former scholarship holders have a period of two years to make this claim.
Reaching the age of access to ordinary retirement with 100% of the regulatory base is the goal of every worker and therefore the years of contributions are worth their weight in gold. And even more so with the upward trend that will become more pronounced in the coming years concerning the minimum age and years of contributions to be able to retire. By 2027, many people who do not meet the requirements will have to go to the 67 years old being able to retire and therefore the years of contributions are essential to say goodbye professional life around 65 years old.
Therefore, the Social security has great news for interns who have already worked as student interns in their company and have not contributed properly. All this after the Ministry of Inclusion, Social security and migration would approve a Special agreement which will allow students who have worked as interns in companies to accumulate up to five additional years of contributions whether or not they had paid scholarships before November 1, 2011, the date on which contributions for paid internships began. In the event that they had not been paid, those who were scholarship recipients before January 1, 2024 will also be able to benefit from this new regulation.
of this new Special agreement of the Social security It is open to university students who have completed training courses in official degrees, masters of continuing education or expert degrees, those of Vocational Training and artistic, professional and sports higher education in the education system. It is also open to university graduates who have participated, through official doctoral studies, in research training programs, both in Spain and abroad.
Social security contribution numbers
Regarding the figures cited in the quote from the Social security It should be taken into account that each day of unpaid training will be considered as 1.61 paid days. Social Security reported at the time that the application of this novelty would result in a significant bonus in contributions that would reach a 95% reduction in the contribution for common contingencies.
Thus, the scholarship holders will contribute to the minimum common contingency base corresponding to group 7, to which a reduction coefficient of 0.77 will be applied. That is to say, everything remains at just under 290 euros for each month recovered that the workers in question will be able to pay if they want to have a contribution for five more years.
The new rule was confirmed in the Official Gazette of April 28, so that former scholarship holders who wish to earn a few more years of contributions have a period of two years to submit their request, until next April 29, 2026. do so through any channel of the Social securityeither via the electronic space, or in any office by prior appointment, or online, or by telephone.
New aid for scholarship holders
Last January, the Government announced a new set of measures to increase the protection of scholarship holders. Thus, from the first day of 2024, students on unpaid internships will be willing to contribute just as paid interns have been doing since 1 November 2011. Thus, with the entry into force of this regulation, all scholarship recipients will be entitled to a contribution, whether paid or unpaid.
In addition to the priceWith the entry of this regulation, current scholarship holders will also be entitled to sick leave and health care like any employee. These trainees will also be considered as salaried workers in the General social security system.
