Glossary

carreira contributiva

Published 3 November 2026, 17:05
carreira contributiva (contribution record)

Your work history as social security sees it: the years and months for which contributions were paid, and on what amounts. You can find it in your Segurança Social Direta account under “Remunerações e contribuições”.

Where you come across it. Checking that everything has been counted, and estimating your future pension with the simulator on the same portal.
A month for which your employer did not pay contributions simply will not appear in your record, and it will be up to you to sort it out. Years with no contributions cannot be filled in retrospectively.