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- Spain
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- Social Security and pensions
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What this document is
C-234 (“Solicitud de prestación de nacimiento y cuidado de menor”) is the official form of Spain’s National Social Security Institute (INSS). It claims the benefit paid during leave for the birth of a child, adoption, guardianship for adoption, foster care or tutelage. The benefit replaces your earnings while you stop working to care for the child.
Each parent applies separately: both the mother who gave birth and the other parent.
Who applies and how
- employees and self-employed workers (autónomos) insured with Social Security — foreigners included;
- online — on the Social Security electronic office with a digital certificate or Cl@ve;
- without an e-signature — the printed and signed form by post or at an INSS centre (CAISS) by appointment (cita previa);
- if you refuse consent to data checks, you must bring the documents within 10 working days.
What you state
- details of the applicant and the other parent (NIE/DNI, Social Security number);
- the event: birth, surrogacy, adoption, guardianship, foster care — its date and number of children;
- leave dates: the six weeks after birth are taken at once and full-time; the rest can be spread;
- a bank account (IBAN; for residents abroad, a foreign account with BIC/SWIFT) held by the applicant — without these details the benefit is not paid.
How the form is laid out
Nine pages: applicant and representatives, reason, applicable statute, leave dates, tax data, bank account, consents and signature; then a page for INSS notes and instructions. FoxDocs types your data into the fields of the official PDF without changing its layout: the IBAN is split into boxes and your name and NIE repeat in every page header.