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Home > Inclusion, Equality and Social Welfare > Social Solidarity > Benefits and Services

Benefits and Services

  • Orphan’s Supplementary Allowance

    An Orphan’s Allowance may be awarded to a person who is entrusted with the care of a youngster, if both parents of the younster are deceased.
  • Payment of Statutory Bonuses to Pensioners Employed Part-time

    A Pensioner who retires on his pension age may opt to continue working. In this circumstance, if the pensioner is employed part-time, he may be entitled for the difference in payment of statutory bonuses from that paid by the employer. This also applies to beneficiaries in reciept of Severe Disability Assistance and are employed part-time. This does not apply to beneficiaries in receipt of Tapering of Benefits who are employed part-time.
  • Power of Attorney for Pensions and Benefits

    Authorisation by a beneficiary for a person to act as an Attorney on his behalf for Social Security benefits and pensions.
  • Registration under the Social Security Act

    Historically, your social security number is a number registered under the Social Security Act (Cap. 318.) through which you pay social security contributions. The social security contributions paid will entitle you for the social security benefits provided under the Social Security Act (Cap. 318.), subject to the entitlement conditions which exist for each type of benefit. You can find more information on the categories and amount of social security contributions employees and self-employed/self-occupied persons need to pay here.

    As of October 2016, the social security number was removed for permanent Maltese I.D. card holders (with letters M, L, G, H) and will only be used for people that are not in possession of a permanent Maltese I.D. card. Nevertheless, those minors who are still students under 16 years of age and are in possession of a Maltese I.D. card (14+) but would like to work on temporary basis, are obliged to register for a social security number if the final compulsory scholastic year has not been completed.

    The Social Security Act (Cap. 318.), provides that every person who is in a Maltese insurable employment between the age of 16 and 65 is to be insured, and this is automatically achieved when the person pays the social security contributions in Malta. Such a mandatory requirement renders every insured person eligible to claiming and receiving contributory social security benefits, including a retirement pension, subject to satisfying the minimum conditions of the benefit.

  • Report / Enquiry related to a Payment not Received or Credited

    A beneficiary can submit a report that a Social Security Benefit Payment has not been received or credited, else request information according to the payment status linked to the different payment method types – Cheque, Direct Credit and Energy Credit.
  • Residential Address Referral

    A person who is not living at a fixed address, may be given a temporary residential address after being referred to the Foundation for Social Welfare Services (FSWS). A place of temporary residence is an address in Malta or Gozo and may be used when applying for social security benefits.
  • Retirement Pension - Tentative Assessment

    A person may request a Contributory Pension Tentative Assessment to find out what the pension income is on retirement.
  • Retrospective Payment of Social Security Contributions

    Eligible applicants can pay back-dated Social Security Contributions which are missing from their respective contribution history, in such a way that they can either qualify for a contributory pension, or else enhance its current or potential payment rate.
  • Retrospective Payment of Social Security Contributions – Invalidity

    This scheme is intended for Maltese residents or persons insured for Maltese Social Security purposes, whereby eligible applicants can pay back-dated Social Security Contributions which are missing from their respective contribution history. The scope of this scheme is to enable applicants either qualify for a contributory pension, or else enhance their current or potential pension payment rate.
  • Retrospective payment of Social Security Contributions – JobsPlus1990

    This scheme is intended for Maltese residents whose official Jobsplus records indicate period/s of gainful occupation before the establishment of the Employment and Training Corporation (today Jobsplus); but having same period not officially covered by Social Security Contribution insurance payments. The scope of this scheme is to enable eligible applicants to qualify for a minimum contributory pension from Malta, because otherwise, due to not having the minimum requirement of paid Social Security Contributions, they are rendered ineligible for such pension.
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