Idea is to facilitate the fulfillment of obligations by citizens and companies, reducing the risk of delays and penalties.
A Social security starts from today the accept payments for MB Way, in a process that will be gradual Among the services and whose objective is to facilitate compliance with obligations, he advanced the official source of the tutelage to Lusa.
From today, the new MB Way payment channel will be available on the Social Security Portal.
On Tuesday, this possibility is also extended to mobile application (‘app’) of social security.
The goal is facilitate Compliance with obligations by citizens and companies, reducing the risk of delays and penalties.
“The introduction of MB Way as a new social security payment channel represents a significant step in the modernization of public services, bringing the state closer to people, with simpler, faster and more adapted solutions to the daily life of citizens,” says the president of the Institute of Social Security Informatics, Luís Farrajota, in a written note sent to Lusa agency.
With these measures, the institute expects a reduction of about 70% of payments made in person in the spaces of service to the Social Security public (about 500 thousand people).
Last year, more than 700,000 people went to a Social Security counter to pay their contributions, and more than 200,000 calls have been registered.
Regarding specifically the workers of domestic service, MB Way payment is available on the Social Security Portal from Thursday.
The Institute of Social Security Informatics thus expects a “total reduction of face -to -face payments in treasury, for this service ”.
Domestic service workers can currently pay their contributions to social security through multibanco and in person homebanking.
But they were identified constraints In these modalities, so the institute led by Luís Farrajota considers that these difficulties “show the need for significant simplification, especially for this group of workers”.
“In 2024, the payment made at the Treasury for these workers represented 30% of payments. This year 2025, the situation remains,” he adds.
Payments to Social Security by MB Way were planned to start 2026, But the government decided anticipate, In light of the measures that have been implemented to simplify the relationship with social security and bet on digital, also allowing to reduce the queues of waiting in face -to -face care.
At the end of April, the Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, Rosario Palma Ramalho, had indicated that the digitization program that is being implemented, assigned “First People”, allowed 450,000 people from face -to -face care since January.
In the written note and sent to Lusa, the minister highlights that “the new MB Way payment option is another decisive step of the many that will still be given this year” to facilitate the relationship with Social Security, and reiterates that the digital transformation program “is saving time for people and companies”.
