Fraternidad-Muprespa pays, in a first payment, 48 million euros to 65,400 self-employed workers

Fraternidad-Muprespa, Mutual Collaborator with Social Security No. 275, has processed and paid the Special Benefit for Cessation of Activity of 65,396 affiliated self-employed workers, for a total amount of 47,850,027 euros, in a first payment. 

This is the extraordinary benefit for self-employed workers affected by the declaration of the state of alarm decreed on March 14 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The total number of applications received was 65,927 and of them only 531 were denied, while 99.19%, 65,396, were approved. The average amount of the benefit granted is 732 euros.

Of the total requests, 47,166 were for Cessation of Activity while 18,230 requested the benefit due to a decrease in income. 

Fraternidad-Muprespa has made a great effort, like the rest of the mutual insurance companies, to be able to process all the applications in record time, a task to which it has allocated both its human and IT resources. 682 Mutual employees have managed these requests during more than 33,000 work hours between March 14 and April 17. 

According to the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, 923,812 self-employed workers have received this extraordinary benefit from the Collaborating Mutual Insurance Companies with Social Security, with 97.3% of the applications processed having been approved.     

By Autonomous Communities in Fraternidad-Muprespa, 18,697 have been granted in Andalusia, 8,682 in the Community of Madrid and 6,336 in Castilla-La Mancha. In them, the amount allocated to benefits was 13.5 million euros in the case of Andalusia, 6.5 million euros in Madrid and 4.5 in Castilla-La Mancha. 

Following, and in descending order of Autonomous Communities, is Castilla y León, with 5,218 applications and 3.8 million euros, Valencian Community, with 5,060 applications and 3.7 million euros and Galicia, with 4,275 applications to which 3.2 million euros have been allocated.

Catalonia and the Basque Country are the communities that occupy the seventh and eighth positions by number of applications submitted: 3,410 in the first and 3,011 in the second. The amount paid in benefits has been 2.5 million euros in Catalonia and 2.4 million in Euskadi. 

Murcia (2,260), Extremadura (1,947), the Canary Islands (1,823) and Asturias (1,223) are the last autonomies to have more than a thousand applications. The benefits in these territories were 1.6 million, 1.3 in both Extremadura and the Canary Islands, and 918,000 euros in Asturias. 

Below a thousand applications are Cantabria, with 897 and 658,000 euros allocated to the benefit, La Rioja, with 751 applications to which 550,000 euros have been allocated, Navarra, with 674 applications and 522,000 euros, Aragon, with 578 applications and 437,000 euros and the Balearic Islands, with 526 applications and 390,000 euros. 

Lastly, in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, 28 applications have been processed, 27 of them in Melilla and 1 in Ceuta. 21,000 and 850 euros have been allocated to them, respectively. 

The extraordinary benefit for cessation of activity can be requested by all self-employed workers who are registered with Social Security and who have been affected by the closure of their businesses, due to the declaration of the state of alarm. Also those whose billing has experienced a decrease of 75% compared to the average of the six months prior to the declaration of the state of alarm.

Fraternidad-Muprespa continues working for quick management of requests.