Service Provided Enrollment Re-enrollment
     
 

Re-enrollment

  
  Ex-members who are readmitted in the public service department under the terms of employment of provisional or definite nomination ("nomeação provisória ou definitiva"), Commission of service ("Comissão de serviço"), "Contrato administrativo de provimento" or "Contrato individual de trabalho" may re-enroll in the Provident Fund Scheme, but not applicable to those workers mentioned in Paragraph 2 of Article 3 of the Law no. 8/2006.  
     
  Application procedure and documents required  
 
  • If the worker’s term of employment is provisional or definite nomination, enrollment is obligatory. The public service department responsible for the worker’s payroll shall process the enrollment, submitting the written form (Model no.RP-1) provided by the Pension Fund;
  • If the worker’s term of employment is any one of the following: Commission of service, "Contrato administrativo de provimento" or "Contrato individual de trabalho", enrollment is voluntary. Written form (Model no.RP-1) provided by the Pension Fund, should be submitted to the respective public service department responsible for the applicant’s payroll, within 30 days from the date of initiation of new employment.
  
  The form can be obtained from the respective department, or downloaded from the Forms Download.  
     
  Time needed  
  The process of enrollment will be completed within 5 working days counted from the following day after submission of all necessary documents. (Performance Pledge)  
     
  Remarks  
 
1) In the case of re-enrollment, the contribution time derived from the previous enrollment will all be counted and transferred towards his/her re-enrollment, provided that the interval between the date of cancellation of the previous enrollment and the date of re-enrollment does not exceed 45 days, and no application has been made for redemption and payment of benefits in respect of the previous enrollment. Besides, the preceding choices of the plans for application of contributions maintain.
2) If the worker is under the above-mentioned conditions and his/her enrollment is obligatory, no submission of form (Model no.RP-1) is required.
3)If the worker is recruited by the public service department and by the terms of employment that meet the enrollment requirements in the Provident Fund Scheme, and there is no interruption of service time in changing the departments, re-enrollment process is not required.
 
     
  Relevant laws & regulations  
 
1) Article 4 & Paragraph 3 of Article 8 of the Law no. 8/2006 "The Provident Fund Scheme for Workers in the Public Services";
2) Law no. 12/2015 - "Regime do Contrato de Trabalho nos Serviços Públicos".
 
     
  Department in charge  
  Division of Contributors Support for the Provident Fund Scheme  
     
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