Parents with serious sick children can already ask for an economic benefit
The Government has approved in the Council of Ministers the Royal Decree that regulates recognition, in all regimes of the Social Security System, an economic benefit for the care of minors affected by cancer or other serious illness.
The biological, adoptive or welcoming parents who reduce their workday will benefit at least 50% for the care of the sick minor in charge and whenever they work both.When both were entitled to the benefit, one of them can only be recognized.
In this way, it is intended to compensate for the loss of income that workers suffer by having to reduce their day - with the consequent decrease in salary - due to the need to take care of the children or children in charge in charge, duringThe hospitalization and continued treatment time of the disease.
The Royal Decree establishes a list of 108 diseases considered serious for the purposes of recognition of the benefit, which may also be updated by the Ministry itself by ministerial order.
can already be requested
The economic benefit will consist of a subsidy, of daily accrual, equivalent to 100% of the regulatory base established for the provision for temporary disability (labor low), derived from professional contingencies.The subsidy will be calculated in proportion to the percentage in which the workday carried out is reduced, which must be at least 50% of its duration.
The requirements for access to the new benefit are the same as for the economic benefit for contributory maternity: being affiliated and registered in some regime of the Social Security system and having covered the minimum price period required.Applications are already available on the Social Security website.
The management and payment will correspond to the mutual accidents at work and occupational diseases or to the managing entity with whom the company has concerted the coverage of professional risks.The benefit will be extinguished when the need for direct, continuous and permanent care of the child ceases or when he turns 18.
Last March, Social Security set up provisional instructions to enable parents with minor children affected by cancer could receive the benefit, because cancer diseases are unworthy in the State General Budget Law for2011, which created the new benefit.This was a temporary solution, while this decree was approved, which allows the benefit to be requested by parents with children suffering from other serious diseases included in the list.
diseases
The list is divided into groups of pathologies: oncology, which includes, among others, leukemia, lymphoma, tumors, neoplasms;Hematology, where severe core and neutropenias and severe constitutional hemoglobinopathies are found;Innate errors of metabolism, which contemplates the disorders of amino acids, of the urea cycle, of organic acids, lysosomal diseases, of peroxisomes, etc.;allergy and immunology, where serious foods, severe bronchial asthma are found;Immunodeficiencies: Wiskot-Aldrich and Di George syndrome, among other syndromes.
In the psychiatry section are eating disorders, severe behavior disorder, major depressive disorder, psychotic disorder and schizoofective disorder;In the neurologyThey find congenital malformations of the central nervous system, epilepsies, some autoimmune and neuromuscular diseases, etc.
Cardiology includes serious congenital heart disease, myocardiopathies with ventricular dysfunction or serious arrhythmias, heart disease with heart dysfunction and heart transplantation;And in the respiratory system there are patients with cystic fibrosis, interstitial pneumopathies, bronchiectasias and sarcoidosis, among others.Infectious diseases include HIV, tuberculosis, endocarditis, sepsis, etc.; and in endocrinology includes diabetes mellitus type i .
In the digestive system are broad intestinal resection, serious congenital diarrhea, intestinal transplantation and other serious diseases of the digestive system;In nephrology, chronic renal disease is included in substitute treatment, barter syndrome, cystinosis or hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis hypercalcinosis, among others.
In the area of rheumatology are juvenile idiopathic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, youth dermatomyositis, mixed connective tissue disease and other serious rheumatological diseases;In disease -related diseases is hydrocephalus/derivation valves, thoracic deformities, esophageal atresia, renal malformations, surgery of skeletal dysplasias, scoliosis, etc.
Also, in the case of palliative care in any patient in the final phase of their illness;And in neonatology, large premature ones are included, born before 32 weeks of gestation or with a weight of less than 1,500 grams and premature ones that require prolonged income due to complications secondary to prematurity.
