Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards will be able to have free glasses and contact lenses from 2025 thanks to latest aid from the Social security. People who benefit from this initiative will have to meet a series of requirements to aspire to this type of subsidies that will be part of the National Health System in Spain starting next year. Everything will be confirmed when it is published in the Official State Gazette. From there, a program that is already carried out in other countries in the region will be carried out. European Union as France or Germany.
Glasses and contact lenses will be free in Spain starting next year 2025. Depending on the person’s economic situation and age, the discount will be greater or less, but everything indicates that for next year it will be made official through the Official State Gazette an initiative that will impact millions of Spaniards.
This was confirmed by Mónica García, Minister of Health, who made it clear that the Government has been working on this initiative for months, the conditions and requirements of which are unknown. «I think this is something we agree on from a social and political point of view. It cannot be that the visual or oral health system is not included in the National Health System and we are going to work firmly to make it a reality in 2025,” he stated at the time.
The minister of Health placed vulnerable people and children as the people to whom this aid will be directed, which will become part of the public subsidies of the National Health System in Spain. «We want to start with the most vulnerable people and those with the least ability to access this right. And also for the more infantile populations, who in some way have a greater turnover or a greater expense in this regard. But we are studying it with all the actors,” said Mónica García.
Free glasses and contact lenses in Spain
This initiative, which will come into force from 2025, will give a break to the pockets of Spaniards who are paying an average of 197 euros when it comes to prescription glasses with frames. Regarding contact lenses, the average cost is 120 euros. Visual health problems affect 55.3% of young people between 18 and 34 years old and 62.3% of university students. If in the young population it exceeds 50%, this percentage increases when we talk about the older population.
A woman tries on glasses.
Still, in Europe They have focused on the youngest as the main recipients of this aid. For example, in France, those over 16 years of age can renew their glasses for free every two years, while in Germany glasses and contact lenses are free for those under 18 years of age. Adults who have serious vision problems can also take advantage of these great discounts. As regards United Kingdom There are also great discounts to access these basic tools for people with visual health problems.
Conditions and requirements
When this help from Social security be official in the Official State Gazette The conditions and requirements to access free contact lenses and glasses will be known. Taking into account the line that the rest of the countries in Europe have followed, everything indicates that this aid will go to minors who are in families close to vulnerability and adults who have serious vision problems and who demonstrate no have income to be able to face this investment.
As it becomes official starting in 2025, the Ministry of Health It will open a channel so that the millions of Spaniards who need it can access this aid that will provide an economic respite for the hundreds of thousands of citizens who are experiencing economic difficulties. Even though Pedro Sanchez say that the Spanish economy is going like a rocket, the truth is that the high cost of daily living is harming millions of Spaniards who are employed. That is perhaps the worst summary of today’s Spain, in which those who are registered as an employee suffer economic hardship.
