licença de reestruturação familiar
Published 8 November 2026, 22:53
licença de reestruturação familiar (family restructuring leave)
Leave of up to ten consecutive days for someone who has been granted victim status for domestic violence and has been forced to leave their home. The only right lost during this leave is pay for those days; instead, Segurança Social pays a benefit of 1/30 of the previous month's net base pay per day, but no less than 1/30 of the IAS, which in 2026 is €17.90 a day. It is available to employees, the self-employed and those not working at all.
Where you come across it. You have left home after reporting to the police and cannot go to work.
A copy of the victim status document must be attached to the application; without it you get neither the leave nor the benefit. The benefit cannot be combined with other immediate social security payments.
Official website: data.dre.pt/eli/dec-lei/101/2020/11/26/p/dre/pt/html