Maternity benefits in the General Social Security System and in the RETA: it is possible to cause them simultaneously on an extended leave of absence to look after a child

Abstract

The Supreme Court admits the simultaneous payment of two maternity benefits, one in the General System and the other in the Special System of Self-Employed Workers, on an extended leave of absence to look after a child under the age of three. The performance of a professional activity by the worker on an extended leave of absence which permits to reconcile the personal, familiar and working life and sign up in the Special Regime of Self-Employed Workers, does not involve the mutation of the leave of absence for taking care of childreen in a voluntary one. Accordingly, and having the three years of leave of absence for taking care of childreen the consideration of contribution period and equivalent situation to the registry in the Social Security System, it must be accepted the compatibility of the maternity benefits in both systems.