RDL 20/2026, of July 29, which establishes urgent labor and social protection measures against forest fires

To those workers who:

• Have coverage for cessation of activity.

  To access the benefit, it will not be necessary to have 12 months of contributions to the contingency of cessation of activity, but you must have chosen to cover the contingency of cessation of activity.

   

  • Exception: There is also room for workers benefiting from the contribution reduction provided for in article 38 ter of Law 20/2007, of July 11, on the Statute of Self-Employed Work.

   

• They have totally or partially ceased the activity they carried out on their own account, whether temporarily or permanently.

• Affectation: that the worker is affected by forest fires that give rise to the adoption of civil protection measures that affect the population, such as evacuations, access restrictions, confinements or others of a similar nature, until the annual campaign of high danger of forest fires in 2026 concludes.
   
• Territorial scope: those populations affected by the indicated situations. 
   

Here you can consult the list of affected populations to date:LIST OF POPULATIONS
 

• Affiliation: be affiliated and registered in the Special Social Security Regime for Self-Employed or Self-Employed Workers (RETA), in the Special Social Security Regime for Sea Workers, or in the Special System for Agricultural Self-Employed Workers, when the forest fires occurred.
   
• Accreditation: Accreditation of the impossibility of carrying out the activity will not be required, without prejudice to the Mutual Fund requiring justification in this regard as of January 1, 2027.
   
• Be up to date with the payment of contributions to the Special Regime: However, the invitation to pay is allowed to regularize said payment within a period of 30 days to access the benefit. If you have employees in charge, you must be up to date with your labor and Social Security obligations.

It will be recognized, on a provisional basis, from the July 22, 2026, or from the date on which the cessation of activity occurred as a result of the fires referred to in the applicable standard.

The benefit may be extended for a period of up to 4 months.

• Exception: definitive total cessation of activity in which, once the maximum duration has been exhausted, the amount normally provided for in article 331.1.b) of the General Social Security Law may be received, if the required requirements are met, upon request by the interested person.

This benefit consists of the following financial aid:

1. The payment of an economic benefit whose amount will be calculated by applying the  70% of the average of the bases for which contributions would have been made during the 12 continuous months immediately preceding the legal situation of termination, with the application of the maximum and minimum limits calculated on the IPREM based on the number of dependent children.

   Those groups that, in accordance with the provisions that develop the Social Security contribution rules, have chosen a minimum contribution base lower than the ordinary minimum contribution base for self-employed or self-employed workers, the minimum amount of the benefit for cessation of activity provided for in article 9.2 of Law 32/2010, of August 5, will not apply to them.

2. In the partial temporary suspension cases due to force majeure, the economic benefit will be calculated according to the 50% of the resulting regulatory base. 

The Mutual Fund will be responsible for 100% of the contributions of self-employed workers for the duration of the situation of cessation of activity, with the exception of the exceptions that are legally provided.

 This benefit is incompatible with:

• Any other Social Security benefit that has been received or is beginning to be received, unless it is compatible with self-employment activity.
• Carrying out any other self-employed work.

• The performance of work as an employee started after the birth of the right to benefit for cessation of activity.

  On the other hand, it will be compatible with self-employment work that was carried out prior to the start of the accrual of the benefit for cessation of activity, as long as the sum of the average monthly remuneration of the last four months immediately prior to the birth of the right and the benefit for cessation of activity, results in an average monthly amount lower than the amount of the minimum interprofessional salary in force at the time of the birth of the right.

• Receive aid for fleet paralysis.

They will be the cause of extinction of the benefit:

• Reach the maximum duration planned for the benefit.
• In the event that the cessation of activity is definitive, compliance with the ordinary age and the rest of the requirements to access the retirement benefit.
• The death of the beneficiary.

• This benefit will be unseizable, and may not be compensated with other Social Security benefits improperly received.
• Subsidized or reduced installments: Self-employed workers will not lose the right to bonuses or reductions in the quota for the time remaining pending, as long as they request registration immediately after the end of the benefit.
• Benefit review: As of January 1, 2027, the Mutual Fund may require the beneficiary to provide proof of sufficient documentation in order to prove the impossibility of carrying out the work activity. 

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