prazo de garantia
Published 8 November 2026, 19:36
prazo de garantia (minimum contribution period)
How many years of contributions you need before a benefit can be awarded at all. For an old-age pension it is 15 calendar years with recorded earnings, consecutive or not; for someone paying voluntary contributions, 144 months. A year counts if it has at least 120 days of contributions.
Where you come across it. Old-age and disability pensions: without this period there is no entitlement, however old you are.
Years worked in a country that has no social security agreement with Portugal do not count towards this period. Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have no such agreement with Portugal.
Official website: seg-social.pt/ptss/pssd/menu/trabalho/reforma-invalidez/pensao-velhice