Foreign nationals were 18.8 percent of contributors in August, paid 389.1 million euros, up 10.2 percent, and received 66.4 million euros in benefits. A provisional dip in their number may not survive revision, as July's did not.
The independent mechanism that monitors the UN disability convention says the 2027 budget lacks identifiable money, enough funding and result indicators. What it asks for, what the budget holds for disabled people, and the vote dates.
From 17 October, CSI recipients still get prescription medicines free, but where a generic group exists the state pays only up to its reference price. Choose a dearer brand and you pay the difference. Glasses and denture refunds are unchanged.
Social Security's own figures, published with the 2027 budget, show women's average old-age pension 42 percent below men's in 2025, against 43 percent in 2015. For new pensions the gap fell from 41 to 34 percent.
Cancer patients on sick leave get 55 to 75 percent of their pay. A Forvis Mazars study for the Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro puts the net cost of paying them 100 percent at about 14 million euros, or 1.4 percent of sickness benefit spending.
A joint PSD and PS rewrite of the citizens' parental leave bill won an indicative vote in a parliamentary working group on Tuesday. It still needs the Labour Committee and a final plenary vote, and covers only leave starting from 1 January 2027.
An automated WhatsApp service now lets you book a Social Security appointment, and the launch notice says you can request declarations too. Here is where to find the shortcut and what it does.
