Normal age of access to old-age pension in 2019

The Ordinance nº 25/2018, January 18 , establish in 66 years and 5 months the normal age to access the old-age pension in 2019.

Update of the IAS value for 2018 

The Ordinance nº 21/2018, January 18, updated to 428,90 euros the indexing value of social supports (IAS) to 2018.

Update of the value of work accidents pension

The ordinance nº 22/2018, January 18, increases 1,8% the value of the work accident pensions.

Contracting Entities of independent employees 

The Decree Law n.º 2/2018, January 9, changed the contributory scheme of independent employees, granted in the Code on the Contributory Schemes of the Protection System of Social Security.

Among the changes introduced, there is the definition of a contracting entity for the purposes of the tax liability: therefore, the entities that benefit from more than 50% of the total value of the self-employed activity (previously it was 80%), start to qualify.

Among the changes introduced, there is the definition of a contracting entity for the purposes of the tax liability: therefore, the entities that benefit from more than 50% of the total value of the self-employed activity (previously it was 80%), start to qualify.

Thus, from 1st January 2018, if the independent employee receives 50% or more of his income from a single contracting entity, the latter must pay a social security contribution of:

  • 10% if the entity pays more than 80% of the total income earned by the service provider.
  • We would remind you that the previous fee of the contracting entity responsible for more than 80% of the income received by the service provider was 5%.

We remind you that the previous fee of the contracting entity responsible for more than 80% of the income received by the service provider was 5%!