New Social Security mobile application lets you see value and benefit payment date

Lisbon – Social Security has a new mobile application that will be presented today and allows citizens and companies to access various services, such as consulting the value and date of payment of various social benefits.

The launch session of the mobile application of Social Security Direct is scheduled for 3:00 pm at the Institute of Informatics in Oeiras and will be attended by the Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, Vieira da Silva, and the Secretary of State of Social Security, Cláudia Joaquim.

According to the Ministry of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, the application “Social Security + next” was available on Wednesday and, in its initial phase will allow to consult the amount receivable and the expected date of payment of social benefits, such as example, unemployment, sickness or maternity allowances.

The new communication channel also allows you to access the Social Security Direct message box and synchronize the Social Security event calendar with the mobile device’s calendar.

According to the same source, the application will be updated with new features and will not allow uploading of documents. That is, interactions with Social Security that need to send documents can only be done on the computer through the Social Security Direct site.

For now, the application is only available for the Android system, passing “in the next few days” to be also for iOS, the ministry said.

To use the new application, you must register with Social Security Direct, which can be done through the “password in time” feature.

“These new applications continue the strategy of modernizing Social Security, making it simpler and closer to citizens,” says the Ministry of Vieira da Silva.

The new application is framed in the strategy “Social Security with Us” and integrates the program Simplex 2018+.