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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits and coverage rates. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces Catalonia
Total Contributory benefits Contributory Temporary agricultural workers Financial welfare benefits Subsidy Temporary agricultural workers Income agricultural Unemployment temporary protection program and insertion Active income for labour insertion
2013 411,524 215,985 214,801 1,184 168,139 168,118 0 0 21 27,400
2012 432,749 235,763 234,569 1,194 173,502 173,352 0 0 150 23,485
2011 431,845 239,506 238,342 1,164 176,808 167,682 0 0 9,126 15,532
2010 463,566 269,528 268,496 1,032 186,178 153,443 0 0 32,735 7,860
Units: Annual averages.
Source: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social.
Note: The agricultural subsidy is only applicable to the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Andalucía.

Last update: July 22, 2015.

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.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.