Registered workers can access certain benefits. (Photo/Darkroom)

Medical, hospital care, special medicines, among others, are among the benefits that a person registered with the Mexican Social Security Institute can access. (IMSS). However, if you do not know your status with the institute, there is an easy way to check it.

This is an important process, because with it you will have the certainty that you are protected and if your beneficiaries are always current. And it is that there have been cases in which companies dismiss employees temporarily and without notice to collaborators.

To know your situation, the first step is to request a certificate of validity of rights, a special document that will reveal the position of the worker who contributes to the IMSS as follows:

-The person concerned must click on the following link. Here

-Enter your unique population register code (CURP), Social Security Number (NSS) and have a current, activated email handy.

The IMSS will have to share with the worker information about the corresponding clinic, the data of your last pattern, in addition to knowing if their relatives or heirs are still registered.

Employees will be able to know the validity of their beneficiaries.  (Photo: Cuartoscuro)
Employees will be able to know the validity of their beneficiaries. (Photo: Cuartoscuro)

Over the years, the IMSS has made it known that workers who they contribute to the IMSS and are properly registered may seek medical care in the corresponding unit.

They will also be entitled to invalidity in the event of an accident at work or illness, to medical care, to childcare, amount of your savings for weaning at the appropriate time, hospital or pharmaceutical care, childcare services. In addition to the possibility of claiming pensions for disability or death, among others.

And it is that in case of not being attached to the IMSS, but requiring a service in a hospital of this organization, it will be important to specify that the costs are very high and that you will have to cover them yourself.

Costs increase for people without insurance.  (Photo: Cuartoscuro)
Costs increase for people without insurance. (Photo: Cuartoscuro)

For example: urgent care costs more than one thousand 700 pesos; a hemodialysis session more than 5 thousand 500 pesos; surgery at least 33 thousand pesos; for a day of hospitalization you will have to pay more than 10 thousand 700 pesos. It was revealed in a document Special institute.

For this reason, workers should consider reviewing the certificate or registering with the IMSS.

-The first step is to request your Social Security Number (SSN), as this is personal, unique and non-transferable data.

-Once you have the NSS, you must provide it to your employer or the school where you are taking courses so that they can register you and in order to benefit from the aforementioned advantages.

If you do not know the SSN, you can also request it online, through a special platform of the institute at the following address link, where it will be located and sent to your mail.

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