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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2022
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 159,428 24,859 12,060 26,860 223,207 1,761,916 12.7
Contributory benefits 90,793 14,465 7,060 14,103 126,421 773,227 16.3
Contributory 90,537 14,326 6,355 13,836 125,055 743,459 16.8
Temporary agricultural workers 256 139 705 266 1,366 29,768 4.6
Financial welfare benefits 71,856 12,430 5,288 15,533 88,319 882,585 10.0
Subsidy 71,856 12,430 5,288 15,533 88,319 718,189 12.3
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 87,566 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 76,830 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 5,645 957 520 1,345 8,468 106,103 8.0
Employment activation programme .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Annual averages.
Source: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
Note: The agricultural subsidy is only applicable to the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Andalucía.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: May 12, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Beneficiaries of unemployment benefit
Worker in a legal situation of unemployment that at the end of the statistical period was receiving one of the following benefits: contributory benefits for unemployment, financial welfare benefits or active income for labour insertion.
Contributory benefits for unemployment
Benefits received by people that have been making contributions for a minimum of twelve months of the six years prior to the unemployed situation. The duration of the benefit is a maximum of a third of the period of contributions, the limit being two years.
Financial benefit
Right to monetary aid corresponding to the beneficiary when the conditions required for its acquisition are met.
Active income for labour insertion
Specific financial benefit for unemployed persons with special financial needs and difficulties finding employment that acquire the commitment to undertake activities of benefit to their labour insertion (Royal Decree 1369/2006, of November 24).

Methodological aspects

Unemployment benefits are managed by the SEPE (State Public Employment Service).

The information refers to the benefits that provide protection against unemployment related to the contributory and welfare areas, active inclusion income and the employment activation programme. To access the benefits it is necessary to have paid the prior contributions to the Social Security for this contingency and to meet the requirements required in each case.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".