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Another of the measures established by Law 6/2017 on urgent reforms for the self-employed, which came into force on 1 March 2018, is the amount of maternity and paternity benefits.

From now on, the regulatory base will be the result of dividing the contribution bases for the six months prior to the qualifying event by 180, and if the self-employed person has not been registered for the whole six-month period, the bases for the period of registration will be divided by the number of days of registration.

This means that until its entry into force, the contribution base of the previous month was divided by 30 or by the number of days contributed. From now on, if in the previous six months the self-employed person has paid contributions on different bases, not only the last one, but the last six will betaken into account.

With this measure, and due to the possibility of changing the contribution bases four times a year, the aim is to adjust more closely to the real situation of the self-employed.