RDL 30/20020: Article 13, section 2

To those workers who:

• Do not lack enough to access other cessation of activity benefits that require this requirement (generally those self-employed workers covered by a flat rate –without the option of cessation of activity coverage–).
• They intend to continue with their professional activity .
• They estimate a bad result in the 4th quarter of 2020.

1. Be registered and up to date with the payment of contributions in the Special Regime before April 1, 2020 ¹ .
2. Not having been deregistered from the Special Regime since April 1, 2020.
3. Be up to date with the payment of contributions to the Special Regime at the time of requesting the benefit (otherwise, the Mutual Fund will invite you to be up to date, within a non-extendable period of 30 days).
4. Not having the necessary deficiency to be able to request either the ordinary benefit for cessation of activity provided for in the fourth additional provision of Royal Decree-Law 30/2020, or that regulated in title V of the General Social Security Law.

⁽¹⁾ Self-employed workers who were registered on April 1, 2020 cannot access this help.

1. Accredit, during the fourth quarter of 2020, a reduction in income of at least 50% in relation to the first quarter of 2020.
2. Do not obtain, during the fourth quarter of 2020, income from self-employed activity greater than the Minimum Interprofessional Wage.

This benefit consists of 2 aids:

• The payment of a economic benefit whose amount will be calculated by applying a certain percentage to the minimum contribution base that corresponds to the activity carried out (and which, foreseeably, will be taxed in personal income tax).
  
  To the amount of the resulting benefit, the maximum or minimum limits depending on the number of dependent children will not apply; However, the percentage applied to calculate the benefit will depend on the family situation:

Family situation	% applicable
Family unit 2 in which 2 or more members are entitled to this same extraordinary benefit.	40% (each)
Rest of cases	50%

⁽²⁾ A family unit, for the purposes of this benefit, will be understood to be the people who live together in the same home and who are united by family ties, or similar cohabitation units (de facto couples), up to the first degree of kinship by consanguinity or affinity.

• The exemption from the obligation to contribute (the exemption period being considered as having been contributed).

No , during the time that the benefit is received and registration in the corresponding Special Regime is maintained, the self-employed worker will be exempt from the obligation to contribute.

The period during which the self-employed worker is exempt from the obligation to contribute will be understood as having contributed.

The benefit will have a maximum duration until January 31, 2021 , provided that there is no prior cause for termination.

The time of receipt of this benefit will not reduce the benefit periods for cessation of activity to which the beneficiary may be entitled in the future.

This benefit is incompatible with:

• Any Social Security benefit that has been received, unless it is compatible with self-employment activity.
• The performance of work as an employee when the income derived from it exceeds 1.25 times the SMI.
• The perception of returns from a company.
• Receive aid for fleet paralysis (for Sea workers).

They will cause termination of the benefit:

• Reach the necessary deficiency to access the ordinary cessation of activity benefit provided for in the fourth additional provision of Royal Decree-Law 30/2020, or that regulated in title V of the General Social Security Law.
• Reach the maximum duration planned for the benefit (January 31, 2021).
• The withdrawal from the Special Social Security Regime.
• The death of the beneficiary.

This benefit can be requested from October 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020, with the following effects:

• Applications submitted between October 1 and 15 (both inclusive): They will accrue the right to the benefit from October 1.
• Applications submitted after October 16 (inclusive): will accrue the right to the benefit from the first day of the month following the month in which the application is submitted.

We put at your disposal two digital channels that will facilitate and guide you in your application. You can choose one or the other depending on whether you are already a registered user of our Digital Office or if you are not yet registered and do not want to create one ³ .

Yes, the worker who has requested payment of this benefit can:

• Resign the benefit at any time before January 31, 2021, with the resignation taking effect the month following its communication.
• Return on your own initiative the benefit for cessation of activity without having to wait for the Mutual Fund's claim, when you consider that you have not complied - or are not going to comply - with the access requirements conditioned on the economic result of the fourth quarter of 2020.

(*) The annotations in red correspond to clarifications or issues subject to interpretation.