Share everything or nothing? There is news on the Social Security website

ANDis available on the Social Security Portal a assign custom permissions to subaccounts, “giving him full control over what each authorised person can do in his reserved area,” the Social Security Institute (ISS) announced in a statement.

“ With this news, no longer have to choose between sharing everything or sharing nothing. You can now define for each sub-account the specific areas to which that person has access — whether a family member, an accountant or someone of your trust“you can read in note released. 

What changes with custom permissions?

In practice, there are the following changesAccording to the ISS: 

• Access to the measure: each authorised person accesses only the areas he has defined without access to any further information;
• Keyword always protected: whoever helps him has his own credentials, without having to share his own;
• Total transparency: always knows who has accessed and what actions have been taken;
• Management at the moment: change or cancel permissions at any time, immediately.

“The process is simple and carried out directly on the Social Security Portal, through the path: Menu Profile > Access Management > Manage user sub-accounts,” the public body explains. 

Find out how to check your social security discounts

Social Security discounts are important for the calculation of the pension, but not only – they are also important to measure how much you receive, for example, unemployment benefit or sickness benefit.

“ Over the course of working life, the remuneration declared to Social Security is recorded in the contribution career and may be relevant for the access and calculation of social benefits, such as old age pension, unemployment benefit or sickness benefit”, explains the blog Salto do Santander. 

According to the same platform, “consulting this information regularly helps to identify incorrect or missing periods or remuneration, especially after changing jobs or when the records do not correspond to your receipts”. 

Consulting these values can be done online through the Direct Social Security website. To do this, you must follow these steps:

1. Click Sign in and login to the Portal;
2. Access to Work>Remunerations and contributions> Contributory career> Consult contribution career;
3. A page with two sections is available: Career overview: contains the timeline of the social security contribution career; Consultation of career periods: contains the number of years with a wage record in Social Security;
4. Click Query Career: On this page appear the years with registered wages.

The blog Salto explains that “in the case of the general employees covered by the general scheme, the overall contribution rate is 34.75%”, and of this value:

• 11% corresponds to the employee's contribution
• 23.75% corresponds to the employer's contribution.