The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, has announced that Social Security will include 11 new pathologies generating disability in the regulation that allows the reduction of the retirement age for workers with disabilities to a degree equal to or greater than 45%.
This measure will allow around 50,000 people with disabilities to anticipate their retirement age up to 56 years, due to the pathology they suffer from.
The new pathologies are: spina bifida, variant transthyretin amyloidosis, Parkinson's, myotonic dystrophy type 1 (Steinert), Huntington's disease, chronic kidney disease stage 5, systemic sclerosis, spinal cord injury, corticobasal degeneration, multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy.
The expansion of the list of pathologies will be carried out specifically in the Annex of Royal Decree 1851/2009, which develops Article 161 of the Revised Text of the General Social Security Law (TRLGSS).
Elma Saiz, accompanied by the Secretary of State for Social Security and Pensions, Borja Suárez, has held a working meeting with the president of CERMI, Luis Cayo, and other representatives of the organization, framed in the week in which is commemorated the World Rare Disease Day.
For the minister, “it is a measure of justice for thousands of people who suffer from serious illnesses that greatly condition their daily lives and who, therefore, need to anticipate their retirement age to be on par with the rest of the workers. It was something the Government was committed to and that comes to address a demand from this group“.
The General Directorate for the Management of Social Security (DGOSS), thus concludes months of work presiding over a Technical Commission, integrated by specialists doctors, scientists and experts in disability representing the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, the Forensic Medical Council, the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine, the National Social Security Institute (INSS), the Institute for Seniors and Social Services (IMSERSO) and the National Disability Council.
The Commission has been in charge of studying the applications and, subsequently, of preparing the reports on each pathology that have resulted in the favorable resolution for these 11 new pathologies.
Once the Government modifies the Annex of the aforementioned royal decree, workers with disabilities, who are affected by these pathologies, will be able to advance their retirement age up to 56 years, without this entailing a reduction in the amount of their pension, provided they meet two requirements: be registered or in a situation assimilated to registration on the date of the causative event; and prove 15 years of contributions throughout their working life and, within that period, that for at least 5 years they have been affected by one of these pathologies with a disability equal to or greater than 45 percent.
In these cases, the period of time in which the worker's retirement age is reduced will be computed as contributed to determine the percentage applicable to the regulatory base, which serves for the calculation of the amount of the retirement pension.
