The subsidy for people over 52 years of age is one of the most important of the unemployment subsidies managed by the Public State Employment Service (SEPE) and which currently reaches more than 701,000 people in our country on a monthly basis, according to the .
This subsidy is special and presents some other particularity. Due to its potential beneficiary (a person close to retirement age who has exhausted unemployment and has little income), the duration of the benefit is much longer than that of the rest of the subsidies: until retirement age if the person does not Find a new job first.
That is why all kinds of requirements are required for its collection, including economic ones. This is to ensure that the subsidy is paid to people who really need it. Specifically, it is required that the income of the beneficiary (or that of his family unit as a whole, dividing it by the number of members) does not exceed 75% of the Minimum Interprofessional Salary, in monthly calculation.
This requirement must be met at the time of access to the benefit but must be maintained throughout the period of collection of the subsidy. However, to prove that maintenance of the right to the subsidy must be demonstrated annually that the level of income remains within the margins allowed by law.
That is why, on an annual basis, the beneficiary of a subsidy for people over 52 years of age must present the annual income tax return. The SEPE has warned of this: “You must justify that you continue to meet the requirement of lack of own income by presenting a declaration of your income each year, accompanied by the documentation that justifies it.”
This income statement must be delivered within a certain period, it cannot be done at the choice of the beneficiary of the subsidy. The SEPE explains that it must be submitted within 15 days after the end of the year “counting from the date of birth of the right to the subsidy or from the date on which you resumed it for the last time” and, from that moment, annually taking that date as reference.
Not submitting the return on time will have negative consequences for the beneficiary, since the payment of the benefit will only take effect from the date of submission. In the case of not submitting the annual income statement, the payment of the benefit will be interrupted indefinitely until that document is presented.
How to file the annual income statement
For all this it is key to know how to file the annual income statement. The SEPE makes two options available to the citizen:
-If the citizen did not exceed that limit of 75% of the SMI of income in any month, they can do so through the SEPE Electronic Headquarters, at . To do this you will need to have a digital certificate (), an electronic DNI or Cl@ve ().
There is also the option of doing it online without the need to have any of the previous access methods: with the individual pre-application form, . To do this, select the option ‘Pre-Application for individual benefits’ and then the sub-process ‘Annual Subsidy Income Statement for people over 52 years of age’.
-If the citizen exceeded the limit of 75% of the SMI for any month, they must go to a SEPE benefits office to present the annual income statement. To do this, you must request an appointment, either by phone or at the body’s Electronic Office (it is explained how to do it in either of the two ways).
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