What are Mutual Collaborators with Social Security?

They are private associations of businessmen established through authorization from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, whose purpose is to collaborate in the management of Social Security, under the direction and supervision of the same, without profit motive and with their associates assuming joint responsibility.

Their objective is the development of the following activities:

• The management of economic benefits and health care, including rehabilitation, included in the protection of contingencies of work accidents and occupational diseases of Social Security, as well as the prevention activities of the same contingencies that the protective action dispenses.
• The management of economic benefits for temporary disability derived from common contingencies.
• The management of risk benefits during pregnancy and risk during breastfeeding.
• The management of economic benefits for cessation of the activity of self-employed workers.
• The management of care benefits for minors affected by cancer or another serious illness.
• The other Social Security activities that are legally attributed to it.

They are part of the state public sector of an administrative nature, in accordance with the public nature of its functions and the economic resources it manages, without prejudice to the private nature of the entity.

See Art. 80 of the consolidated text of the General Law of Social Security