Objective and materialization of the protection in the parenthood
CSPS/SSGS

» Motherhood and fatherhood shall constitute eminent social values under the terms of article 68 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. This precept determines that fathers and mothers are entitled to protection of the society and the State in the carrying out of their irreplaceable action in relation to their children. Besides, the female public employees are entitled to a period of release of work, before and after the childbirth, without loss of the compensation and of any benefits of any kind whatsoever

» The social protection in the eventuality, maternity, paternity and adoption – parenthood, aims to ensure benefits substitutive of the work income lost, by virtue of non-performance of work by working mothers and fathers to accompany and take care of their children

» It is materialized in the Convergent Social Protection Scheme (RPSC) and in the Social Security General Scheme (RGSS), through the following benefits:

- Clinical risk allowance during pregnancy

- Allowance for interruption of the pregnancy

- Initial parental allowance

- Initial parental allowance exclusive of the mother

- Initial parental allowance of a progenitor in the case of impossibility of the other

- Initial parental allowance exclusive of the father

- Allowance for adoption

- Extended parental allowance

- Allowance for assistance to a son/daughter with disability or chronic disease

- Allowance for assistance to a son/daughter in the case of illness or accident

- Allowance for assistance to a grandson/granddaughter

- Allowance for specific risks

» The RPSC still grants to appointed public employees their beneficiaries the allowance for assistance to members of the family, during the period of absences for assistance to sick members of the family provided for in the article 85 of the Regulation of the Public Employment Contract Scheme (RCTFP)