Permanent Disability Benefit

Permanent Disability (PI) is the situation of the worker who, after having undergone the prescribed treatment and having been medically discharged, presents serious anatomical or functional reductions, susceptible to objective determination and foreseeably definitive, that reduce or nullify his or her work capacity.

This situation gives rise to a pension that aims to cover the worker's lack of income, the amount and duration of which varies depending on the degree of disability, following a resolution by the National Social Security Institute (INSS).

It is one that, without reaching the level of total, causes the worker a decrease of no less than 33% in the normal performance of his usual profession, without preventing him from carrying out the fundamental tasks of the same.

It is a single, flat-rate compensation corresponding to 24 monthly payments calculated with the daily regulatory base that was used to determine the temporary disability benefit.

It is that situation that disqualifies the worker from his usual profession but he can dedicate himself to a different one.

The economic benefit for total permanent disability consists of a monthly lifetime pension, equivalent to 55% of the annual regulatory base or 75% of said base if the worker is over 55 years of age and does not work.

This can be exceptionally replaced by a flat-rate compensation, when the beneficiary is under 60 years of age.

It is one that completely disables the worker from carrying out any profession or trade.

You will receive a lifetime pension equivalent to 100% of your annual regulatory base.

It is when the permanently disabled worker needs the assistance of another person for the most essential acts of life.

You are entitled to a lifetime pension that is obtained by applying to the regulatory base the percentage corresponding to total or absolute permanent disability, increased with a supplement.

It consists of a flat-rate compensation that Social Security recognizes for workers who suffer injuries, mutilations and deformities caused by work accidents or occupational diseases, which, without constituting a permanent disability, entail a decrease in the physical integrity of the worker, provided that they are included in the scale established for this purpose.

This benefit is included within the protective action of the General Social Security Regime and the Special Regimes for Agriculture, Sea Workers, Self-Employed Workers and Coal Mining.