Extraordinary benefit of seasonal freelance cessation of activity

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ROYAL DECREE-LAW 11/2021, OF MAY 27, ON URGENT MEASURES FOR THE DEFENSE OF EMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC REACTIVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF SELF-EMPLOYED WORKERS

MEASURES FOR THE PROTECTION OF SELF-EMPLOYED WORKERS

Article 9. Extraordinary provision of cessation of activity for seasonal self-employed workers.

1. For the purposes of this precept, seasonal workers are considered self-employed workers whose only work throughout the years 2018 and 2019 would have been carried out in the Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers or in the Special Regime for Sea Workers. for a minimum of four months and a maximum of seven months in each of the referred years.

a) Provided that this time frame covers a minimum of two months between the months of June and September of those years.

c) Failure to obtain during the second and third quarters of the year 2021 a taxable net income that exceeds 6,650 euros.

d) Being up-to-date in the payment of Social Security contributions. However, if this requirement is not met, the managing body will invite the self-employed worker to pay so that, within the non-extendable period of thirty calendar days, he enters the due fees.

3. The amount of the benefit regulated in this article will be equivalent to the 70 % of the minimum contribution base that corresponds to the activity carried out in the Special Scheme of Social Security for Self-Employed or Self-Employed Workers or, where appropriate, in the Special Scheme of Social Security for Seaworkers.

4. The extraordinary benefit for cessation of activity regulated in this article may begin to accrue with effect from June 1, 2021 and will have a maximum duration of four months, provided that the application is submitted. within the first twenty-one calendar days of June. Otherwise, the effects will be set on the first day of the month following the submission of the application and its duration may not exceed September 30, 2021.

5. During the receipt of the benefit there will be no obligation to contribute, the worker remaining in a situation of registration or assimilated to registration in the corresponding Social Security system.

7. This benefit will be incompatible with work for others. and with any Social Security benefit that the beneficiary has received unless it is compatible with the performance of the activity as a self-employed worker. In addition, It will be incompatible with self-employment and with the receipt of income from the company whose activity has been affected by the closure, when the income received in the second and third quarters of 2021 exceeds 6,650 euros.

10. The recognition of the provision regulated in this article may be requested at any time during the period between the entry into force of the rule and the month of August 2021.

The effects of the request are those determined in section 4.