Working life is an old acquaintance for workers, since it is one of the most familiar documents and recognizes the periods that have been contributed to Social Security, that is, the days that we have worked in the eyes of the body. However, it has many aspects that are not always taken into account.
That is why the Social Security has informed on its web page of the keys to this document, which can be downloaded at and whose delivery can also be requested by post in the ‘Receive report at my address’ service.
It’s official and free.
What working life says ‘goes to mass’. These are the data handled by Social Security and what the Administration is going to consider that we have contributed for future applications for pensions or other benefits. Be wary of all those ways of ‘getting it’ in exchange for a sum of money, since it is a document that can be accessed completely free of charge.
They are the data of the Social Security
As it is official, it collects Social Security data, so certain errors may occur in very specific cases, such as the contribution bases for very distant years. If you find yourself in one of these situations, providing the appropriate information.
It is divided into schemes
The information on working life will appear structured in regimens, so that a person who has worked as an employee and later as self-employed will have their data classified.
Takes assimilated situations into account
In working life, not only are contribution periods considered when you are registered with Social Security, since assimilated registration periods are also counted: cases of collection of contributory unemployment benefits, paid and unused vacations, . ..
Includes discharge dates…
The document specifies the date on which the worker began his activity, registered with Security or, if this registration was done incorrectly, the date on which it began to take effect.
…and the low ones
The leave date marks the moment in which the worker stopped contributing to Social Security in the company. The organism explains that this .
Report the type of contract
In the ‘CT’ section, the working life reports the type of contract under which the worker has been contracted. The Social Security explains that the code 100 corresponds to permanent full-time contracts and that the code 200 is that of part-time contracts, for example.
Data on partial contracts
In this type of contract, the CTP% appears, which indicates the partiality coefficient of the working day. Thus, if the worker has a four-hour shift out of a total of eight, he will have 50% and if his shift is six hours, it will be 75%. This is important because it will mark the worker’s contribution.
Listing Groups
They are in the ‘GC’ column and depend on the profession, sector or degree. Thus, number 1 is for graduates and engineers, 10 for laborers and 11 for workers under 18 years of age.
This is the calculation of the days
What we usually look at when reading the working history is the number of days worked, but sometimes the number may not correspond to our calculations. In these cases, it will be necessary to attend to the days worked in part-time contracts or to situations of multi-activity () or multi-employment (in several companies within the same regime).