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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits and coverage rates. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2008
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 198,495 28,021 10,913 30,182 267,611 1,814,632 14.7
Contributory benefits 151,775 20,733 8,393 22,660 203,560 1,100,879 18.5
Contributory 151,586 20,627 8,221 22,404 202,837 1,087,667 18.6
Temporary agricultural workers 189 106 171 257 723 13,212 5.5
Financial welfare benefits 44,637 7,114 2,392 7,191 61,334 646,186 9.5
Subsidy 44,637 7,114 2,392 7,191 61,334 448,441 13.7
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 166,266 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 31,478 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 2,084 175 128 331 2,717 67,567 4.0
Units: Annual averages.
Source: Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.
Note: The agricultural subsidy is only applicable to the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Andalucía.
(z) Category not applicable.

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.