The Basque Country will manage non-contributory family social security benefits
The Basque Government will take over the management and payment of various non-contributory family benefits from the Social Security through a transfer that will benefit some 20,000 people in the Basque Country and involve an investment of around EUR 100 million.
The Basque Government will take over the management and payment of various non-contributory family benefits in the Social Security system in a transfer which will benefit some 20,000 people in the Basque Country and which will involve an investment of around EUR 100 million . This aid will be approved, processed and paid by the Basque Administration, but the State will continue to have regulatory capacity, which means that the Basque Country will not be able to change the amount of this aid.
The transferred competence includes three family support type :
- Financial allocation for each dependent child or minor witha disability equal to or greater than 33 per cent or with a disability equal to or greater than 65 per cent for families with children under 18 years of age or with a disability equal to or greater than 65 per cent; it also extends to minors who are orphaned or abandoned from both parents and who meet the conditions of age or disability.
- Birth or adoption benefit,a single payment of EUR 1,000 to support large families, single-parent families or parents with a disability of 65% or more, subject to certain income limits and incompatible with other similar benefits.
- Multiple childbirth or adoption benefit, also of a single payment, designed to compensate for the extra cost of the birth or adoption of two or more children at the same time. The amount varies depending on the number of children, calculated as a multiple of the Interprofessional Minimum Wage: four times the SMI for two children, eight for three children and twelve for four or more children.
In addition, the Basque Country will manage a special birth allowance for women who, although registered with the Social Security, have not contributed enough to qualify for maternity benefit, equivalent to 100 per cent of the IPREMs per day (€17.93 per day in 2025), for 42 calendar days from childbirth, which in some cases may be extended to 56 days.
In the figures, 10,635 minors and 9,394 adults currently receive these benefits in the Basque Country, according to data from 2023.
The Basque Government stresses that the transfer respects the unitary model of the Social Security system and the single fund. Since these are benefits financed from the general budgets of the State, the Basque Country will no longer pay the proportional share of the expenditure it now assumes, around 6.24% of the total, which is EUR 100 million.
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