{"id":90333,"date":"2025-08-23T04:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90333\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T04:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:04:07","slug":"foreigners-save-social-security-from-losing-contributors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90333\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners &#8216;save&#8217; Social Security from losing contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of active contributors to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seg-social.pt\/ptss\/pssd\/home?dswid=3568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social Security<\/a>, which funds retirements and other social benefits, would have begun to shrink last year if the participation of foreign workers in the national labour market had not increased, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jornaldenegocios.pt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jornal de Neg\u00f3cios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the number of active beneficiaries of the system increased by 2.4%, to approximately 5.6 million people, according to the Directorate-General for Social Security (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seg-social.pt\/ptss\/pssd\/home?dswid=3568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DGSS<\/a>) and the Institute of Informatics. <\/p>\n<p>However, in the data broken down by beneficiary origin \u2013 national or foreign \u2013 it is clear that there was only growth among foreign contributors (+15.1%), which more than offset a 0.1% decline among those with Portuguese nationality.<\/p>\n<p>With last year&#8217;s growth, foreign workers contributing to Social Security surpassed the one million mark for the first time, now representing almost a fifth of the contributors&#8217; universe. The fact that the number of contributors (18.9% of the total) exceeds the contributions made (12.4%) is related to lower salaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of active contributors to Social Security, which funds retirements and other social benefits, would have begun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-90333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}