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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces Catalonia
Total Contributory benefits Contributory Temporary agricultural workers Financial welfare benefits Subsidy Temporary agricultural workers Income agricultural Active income for labour insertion Employment activation programme
2023 230,967 134,496 133,374 1,122 88,570 88,570 0 0 7,900 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2022 223,207 126,421 125,055 1,366 88,319 88,319 0 0 8,468 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2021 255,012 142,911 141,448 1,462 99,945 99,945 0 0 12,156 0
2020 414,627 299,314 297,776 1,538 105,106 105,106 0 0 10,206 0
2019 240,228 134,555 132,718 1,837 92,552 92,552 0 0 13,109 13
2018 230,011 124,288 122,432 1,857 86,743 86,743 0 0 16,472 2,507
2017 240,436 119,014 117,216 1,798 97,608 97,608 0 0 21,388 2,426
2016 266,548 125,256 123,609 1,647 114,044 114,044 0 0 25,731 1,517
2015 304,197 139,433 137,951 1,482 132,282 132,282 0 0 29,977 2,506
Units: Annual averages.
Source:
2015-2022: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
2023: Ministry of Labour and Social Economy.
Note: The agricultural subsidy is only applicable to the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Andalucía.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: May 14, 2024.

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.