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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits and coverage rates. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2009
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 307,683 43,895 18,841 46,568 416,987 2,681,223 15.6
Contributory benefits 223,202 30,175 13,947 31,817 299,141 1,624,792 18.4
Contributory 222,964 30,022 13,557 31,561 298,104 1,606,373 18.6
Temporary agricultural workers 238 153 390 256 1,037 18,419 5.6
Financial welfare benefits 80,855 13,379 4,681 14,139 113,054 960,888 11.8
Subsidy 80,855 13,379 4,681 14,139 113,054 764,805 14.8
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 158,910 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 37,173 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 3,625 341 214 612 4,792 95,543 5.0
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.