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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2024
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 166,037 26,544 13,510 30,798 236,888 1,797,573 13.2
Contributory benefits 98,925 15,601 8,031 16,668 139,226 840,127 16.6
Contributory 98,822 15,556 7,709 16,531 138,618 828,545 16.7
Temporary agricultural workers 103 45 323 137 608 11,582 5.2
Financial welfare benefits 62,087 10,234 5,013 12,851 90,185 869,316 10.4
Subsidy 62,087 10,234 5,013 12,851 90,185 724,109 12.5
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 76,451 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 68,756 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 5,024 709 466 1,280 7,478 88,130 8.5
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: Ministry of Labour and Social Economy.
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, 2026.

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.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.