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What it is

Bill so people with support measures can get disability benefits

Admitted step 2 of 7 · Unfinished

It is a members’ bill. Introduced by parliamentary groups, the Senate, regional governments or citizens. It was introduced on 26 July 2022. Introduced by: Grupo Parlamentario VOX.

Official title: Private member's bill amending Additional Provision twenty-five of Royal Legislative Decree 8/2015, of 30 October, approving the consolidated text of the General Social Security Law.

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Source: Congreso de los Diputados, file 122/000246· updated 11 Nov

Automatic summary, not yet reviewed

  1. The bill explains the problem: since Law 8/2021 came into force, courts no longer issue declarations of incapacity, but support measures instead. Because the Social Security rule only mentions incapacity declarations, many people with support measures are losing disability-related benefits, such as the child allowance.
  2. The bill would amend the twenty-fifth additional provision of the General Social Security Law so that people with support measures for exercising their legal capacity would also count as having a disability of 65 percent or more, not only those declared incapable by a court.
  3. The Government could issue the rules needed to apply the law, and until then the current rules that do not conflict with it would remain in force. The law would apply across the whole country, respecting the powers of the autonomous communities.
  4. The law would enter into force on January 1 of the year after its approval, so that the budget impact would apply to the following fiscal year.

Who it affects

  • People with support measures for exercising their legal capacity: They could access Social Security benefits tied to a disability of 65 percent or more without needing an old court incapacity declaration.
  • People with a court incapacity ruling issued before Law 8/2021 (about 250,000 according to the text): They would keep the equal treatment as a 65 percent or higher disability that they already had.
  • Families with members with disabilities: They would stop losing essential benefits, such as the child allowance, which can be key given the costs that disability involves.

Words worth knowing

Medidas de apoyo (support measures)
Help (for example, assistance or representation) set up so a person with disabilities can exercise their legal capacity. They replaced the old court incapacity procedure.
Capacidad jurídica (legal capacity)
A person's ability to hold rights and obligations in their own name.
Disposición adicional vigésima quinta (DA 25.ª)
Section of the General Social Security Law that treats people declared incapable by a court the same as those with a recognized disability of 65 percent or more.
Proposición de ley (bill)
A text in the form of a law introduced by parliamentary groups that still must be debated and passed by the Congress; it is not a law in force.

It summarizes the text as it was introduced. It is written by artificial intelligence and may contain mistakes: the official text is what counts. Read the official text · How we make summaries

Where it stands

How far did it get?

It took 2 of 7 steps. It reached Admitted, and today it is unfinished.

  1. Introduced26 July 2022Someone registers the text in the Congreso.
  2. Admitted25 August 2022The Bureau of the Congreso accepts it and, for a members’ bill, the plenary decides whether to consider it.
  3. Amendmentsnot reachedGroups propose changes.
  4. Committeenot reachedA committee goes through the text in detail.
  5. Plenarynot reachedAll 350 deputies vote.
  6. Senatenot reachedThe Senate can pass it, amend it or veto it.
  7. BOEnot reachedIt is published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and comes into force.
See the 6 official steps on a timeline
Sept 2022Dec 2022Mar 202311. 26 July 2022: Presentación22. 25 August 2022: Boletín Oficial de las Cortes Generales Publicación desde 25/08/2022 hasta 30/08/202233. 25 August 2022: Calificación44. 30 August 2022: Gobierno Contestación desde 30/08/2022 hasta 06/10/202255. 6 October 2022: Pleno Toma en consideración desde 06/10/2022 hasta 30/05/202366. 30 May 2023: Concluido - (Caducado) desde 30/05/2023 hasta 16/06/2023

Was there a plenary vote?

We have no plenary vote linked to this law in the Congreso’s data.

What happens next

What happens now?

The legislature ended before it finished. To go on, someone would have to introduce it again in the new Cortes.

It has not been presented again yet.

Sources

Where does all this come from?

  • The data comes from the open files of the Congreso, the Senate and the BOE, unaltered.
  • Each deputy’s province is the one of their seat on the day of the vote.
  • We only say “passed” or “rejected” when the majority needed is certain; otherwise we say which side had more votes.

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