ISS
Published 5 November 2026, 22:39
ISS — Instituto da Segurança Social (Social Security Institute)
The state body that awards and pays social security benefits and carries out social work on the ground through district centres, public service desks and incapacity assessment services. It is the ISS that recognises carer status, issues the carer's card and pays the allowance.
Where you come across it. Segurança Social decisions and forms, where the institute is named in exactly this way: ISS, I. P.
Not to be confused with the Segurança Social portal: the portal is the website and your personal account, while the ISS is the body that makes the decisions. Madeira and the Azores have their own regional services.
Official website: seg-social.pt