{"id":294565,"date":"2026-02-21T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294565\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:23:10","slug":"foreigners-contribution-to-social-security-increased-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294565\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners contribution to Social Security increased in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> According to data from the ECO portal, based on the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seg-social.pt\/ptss\/pssd\/home?dswid=-6694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social Security<\/a> database, this value already represents 14% of total contributions made by workers to the system, a significant jump from the 3.4% recorded in 2015.<\/p>\n<p> In December 2025, the number of foreign contributors reached 840,000, equivalent to almost 18% of the total contributors in the country.<\/p>\n<p> Although spending on social benefits paid to non-nationals also increased (524%), the rate was considerably lower than that of revenue.<\/p>\n<p> In 2025, the State spent \u20ac822 million on subsidies for this group, resulting in a net surplus of more than \u20ac3.3 billion. The now-publicly available statistics reveal that these taxpayers are predominantly young, with the highest representation in the 20-39 age group, and that they mainly originate from Brazil, India, and Angola.<\/p>\n<p> In terms of sectors, foreign workers are concentrated mainly in accommodation, catering, and construction, but their presence is most significant in agriculture, where they already represent more than 40% of the workforce. Although the numbers indicate a favourable margin, the Secretary of State for Social Security, Susana Filipa Lima, stressed in statements quoted by ECO the need for caution when speaking of a &#8220;net balance,&#8221; since not all expenditure and revenue categories allow for a complete breakdown by nationality.<\/p>\n<p> The government official justified the opening of this database as a measure of transparency and literacy, responding to the growing public interest in the impact of immigration on the sustainability of the system. &#8220;There is a positive difference between contributions paid and benefits, yes,&#8221; admitted Susana Filipa Lima, reinforcing that the unbiased availability of this data is fundamental to raising public debate and literacy about national demographics and the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to data from the ECO portal, based on the new Social Security database, this value already represents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-294565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}