UPTA Demands Immediate Pension Revaluation for Self-Employed Workers

La Unión de Profesionales y Trabajadores Autónomos (UPTA) has called for the immediate revaluation of pensions for retirees who accessed their benefits as self-employed workers.

The organization is demanding this adjustment to reduce the enormous gap existing compared to the benefits of the General Regime.

The demand focuses on the disparity between the pension amounts received by former self-employed professionals and those received by retirees under the General Regime, which typically covers salaried employees.

In the Spanish social security system, the self-employed operate under a specific framework known as the Régimen Especial de Trabajadores Autónomos (RETA), while the General Regime applies to workers with employment contracts. This structural difference often leads to variations in contribution levels and subsequent pension payouts.

UPTA argues that the current gap between these two systems creates an inequity for those who spent their working lives as independent professionals.