• Decree‑Law No. 104/2026, of 25 May (PDF, 98KB) – Amends Decree‑Law No. 176/2003, of 2 August, which established family allowance for children and young people and defined protection in situations of family‑related expenses within the family protection subsystem.
• Ordinance No. 60/2026/1, of 5 February(PDF, 73KB) – Updates the amounts of family allowance for children and young people, prenatal family allowance and funeral allowance.
• Ordinance No. 6‑A/2025/1, of 6 January (PDF, 563KB) – Annual update of work‑accident pensions for 2025.
• Ordinance No. 6‑B/2025/1, of 6 January (PDF, 562KB) – Annual update of the Social Support Index (IAS).
• Ordinance No. 372‑B/2024/1, of 31 December (PDF, 646KB) – Annual update of pensions and other social benefits.
• Ordinance No. 358/2024/1, of 30 December (PDF, 544KB) – Sets the normal retirement age for 2026.
• Ordinance No. 170/2024/1, of 20 June (PDF, 188KB) – Defines the coefficients used to update annual remuneration.
• Decree‑Law No. 53/2023, of 5 July (PDF, 2MB) – Regulates the Decent Work Agenda.
• Law No. 13/2023, of 3 April(PDF, 7MB) – Amends the Labour Code and related legislation within the scope of the Decent Work Agenda.
• Ordinance No. 34/2023, of 25 January (PDF, 381KB) – Updates family allowance amounts (children and young people, prenatal), funeral allowance, disability supplement, third‑person assistance allowance, and strengthens family allowance increases in single‑parent households.
• Law No. 5/2022, of 7 January (PDF, 289KB) – Establishes the early‑retirement regime for persons with disabilities.
• Ordinance No. 144/2022, of 27 July (PDF, 559KB) – Regulates the conditions for implementing free access to nurseries and family nurseries within the cooperation system, including childminders of the Social Security Institute.
• Ordinance No. 262/2011, of 31 August (PDF, 148KB) – Establishes installation and operating rules for nurseries, whether private, individual, or social‑solidarity institutions.
• Decree‑Law No. 14‑D/2020, of 13 April (PDF, 256KB) – Strengthens parental protection for public workers under the convergent social protection scheme.
• Ordinance No. 29/2020, of 31 January (PDF, 369KB) – Updates minimum pension supplements (invalidity and old‑age) across several social security regimes for 2020.
• Decree‑Law No. 108/2019, of 13 August (PDF, 830KB) – Amends the Retirement Statute and the Survivors’ Pension Statute and creates a new early‑retirement regime.
• Regulatory Decree No. 2/2019, of 5 February (PDF, 121KB) – Defines rules for setting benefits granted in pre‑retirement situations involving suspension of public‑function work.
• Regulatory Decree No. 12/2018, of 27 December (PDF, 194KB) – Defines and regulates the extraordinary pension update for 2019.
• Decree‑Law No. 119/2018, of 27 December (PDF, 155KB) – Creates the new flexible retirement‑age regime.
• Decree‑Law No. 73/2018, of 17 September (PDF, 155KB) – Extends early‑retirement access for beneficiaries with very long contributory careers, including those who started contributing at age 16 or younger.
• Decree‑Law No. 2/2016, of 6 January (PDF, 118KB) – Amends the percentage increase of family allowance for children and young people in single‑parent households.
• Decree‑Law No. 167‑E/2013, of 31 December (PDF, 229KB) – Amends the legal regime of social protection in cases of invalidity and old age under the general social security scheme.
• Decree‑Law No. 133/2012, of 27 June (PDF, 344KB) – Amends social‑protection regimes for sickness, maternity, paternity, adoption, death, family‑related expenses, social insertion income, undue‑payment restitution, resource‑condition rules, and convergent‑scheme parental protection.
• Law No. 15/2011, of 3 May (PDF, 165KB) – First amendment to Decree‑Law No. 70/2010, removing study and training grants from resource‑condition verification.
• Ordinance No. 249/2011, of 22 June (PDF, 945KB) – Approves application forms for social insertion income, prenatal family allowance, family allowance for children and young people, and household composition/income declaration.
• Order No. 1452/2011, of 18 January (PDF, 224KB) – Technical rules on ADSE contributions.
• Regulatory Decree No. 1‑A/2011, of 3 January (PDF, 288KB) – Regulates the Contributory Regimes Code of the Social Security System.
• Decree‑Law No. 116/2010, of 22 October (PDF, 192KB) – Ends family allowance for the 4th and 5th income brackets and removes the 25% increase for the 1st and 2nd brackets; changes income‑bracket determination rules.
• Law No. 23/2010, of 30 August (PDF, 212KB) – Amends legislation on protection of de facto unions and related social‑security regimes.
• Decree‑Law No. 72/2010, of 18 June (PDF, 272KB) – Introduces measures to reinforce employability of unemployment‑benefit recipients and combat fraud; republishes Decree‑Law No. 220/2006.
• Decree‑Law No. 70/2010, of 16 June (PDF, 272KB) – Defines resource‑condition rules for family‑protection and solidarity subsystems and other public social supports.
• Law No. 119/2009, of 30 December (PDF, 208KB) – Amends Law No. 110/2009, setting a new entry‑into‑force date for the Contributory Regimes Code.
• Ordinance No. 1359/2009, of 27 October(PDF, 370KB) – European Health Insurance Card.
• Law No. 110/2009, of 16 September (PDF, 352KB) – Approves the Contributory Regimes Code of the Social Security System.
• Decree‑Law No. 89/2009, of 9 April (PDF, 432KB) – Regulates parental protection under the convergent social protection scheme.
• Joint Circular No. 1/DGO/DGAEP/ISS/2009 (PDF, 1.1MB) – Application of Law No. 4/2009.
• Decree‑Law No. 201/2009, of 28 August (PDF, 172KB) – Amends Decree‑Law No. 176/2003 on family allowance for children and young people.
• Law No. 4/2009, of 29 January (PDF, 20.3KB) – Defines social protection for workers performing public functions.
• Ordinance No. 1084/2008, of 25 September (PDF, 300KB) – Regulates enrolment of beneficiaries in the Public Administration Social Services.
• Law No. 53‑B/2006, of 29 December (PDF, 100KB) – Creates the Social Support Index (IAS) and new rules for updating pensions and social benefits.
• Decree‑Law No. 176/2003, of 2 August(PDF, 228KB) –  Establishes family allowance for children and young people and defines protection in situations of family‑related expenses within the family protection subsystem.

Work Accidents and Occupational Diseases

• Law No. 19/2021, of 8 April(PDF, 289KB) – Defines conditions for combining permanent‑incapacity benefits with part of remuneration in cases of partial incapacity due to work accident or occupational disease.
• Ordinance No. 11/2000, of 13 January (PDF, 24KB) – Approves technical bases for calculating redemption capital and guarantee values for work‑accident pensions.
• Decree‑Law No. 503/99, of 20 November (PDF, 456KB) – Approves the legal regime for accidents in service and occupational diseases in the Public Administration.
• Law No. 98/2009, of 4 September (PDF, 320KB) – Regulates compensation for work accidents and occupational diseases, including professional rehabilitation and reintegration.

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Public Administration Health Subsystems

• Decree‑Law No. 4/2021, of 8 January (PDF, 463KB) – Extends ADSE coverage to workers with individual employment contracts in public‑law entities.
• Law No. 30/2014, of 19 May (PDF, 174KB) – Amends several legal instruments, modifying contribution rates for health‑care social‑protection subsystems.
• Law No. 53‑D/2006, of 29 December (PDF, 103KB) – Amends contributions of beneficiaries of Public Administration health subsystems; regulates ADSE enrolment of de facto partners.
• Ordinance No. 701/2006, of 13 July (PDF, 92KB) – Regulates ADSE enrolment of de facto partners.
• Decree‑Law No. 234/2005, of 29 December (PDF, 149KB) – Third amendment to Decree‑Law No. 118/83 on ADSE functioning and benefits.
• Decree‑Law No. 118/83, of 25 February (PDF, 958KB) – Establishes the functioning and benefit scheme of ADSE.