How to get your Spain pension statement

Informe de vida laboral

Known in English as the Working life report. Look for this name on the site — it may not be translated.

• Your Spanish social security number (número de afiliación) and your NIE or DNI.
• Cl@ve, a digital certificate, or a Spanish mobile number registered with the Seguridad Social — the SMS route is by far the easiest if it applies to you.
• Your Spanish employers and years.

1. 1
   Open the Seguridad Social electronic office

   The Sede Electrónica is where records are issued. The document you want is the informe de vida laboral — the single most useful Spanish pension document.

   Open this page ↗
2. 2
   Try the SMS route first

   If your mobile number is registered with the Seguridad Social, the vida laboral can be requested with your ID and phone alone — no certificate, no Cl@ve. Many people never discover this.
3. 3
   Otherwise authenticate with Cl@ve or a certificate

   Cl@ve PIN and Cl@ve Permanente both work; a FNMT digital certificate is the most durable option if you deal with Spanish administration regularly.
4. 4
   Read the vida laboral

   It lists every registration period with every employer, by day. Spanish entitlement depends on days contributed, so this is the eligibility document.
5. 5
   Also request your contribution bases

   The informe de bases de cotización shows the amounts contributions were calculated on, which is what determines the pension amount rather than merely the right to one.

You have no Spanish phone number and no certificate

Update your registered phone through a Spanish consulate, or obtain an FNMT certificate — consulates can carry out the identity verification. INSS also accepts postal requests for a vida laboral.

Periods with an old employer are missing

Check whether the employer registered you under a different company name or a temporary employment agency. The Tesorería General handles corrections; payslips and contracts are the evidence.

You worked in Spain before your NIE was issued

Ask for a search by name and date of birth. Older records were kept provincially and can take longer to locate.

Whether the SMS route is currently available to phone numbers with a non-Spanish country code.

Upload the statement to your vault and we'll read the figures out of it — balances, benefits, vesting and retirement ages — and tell you what changed since your last one.