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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits and coverage rates. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2011
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 314,894 44,510 21,684 50,757 431,845 2,845,652 15.2
Contributory benefits 177,044 23,629 12,512 26,321 239,506 1,328,020 18.0
Contributory 176,833 23,490 11,966 26,053 238,342 1,309,025 18.2
Temporary agricultural workers 211 139 546 268 1,164 18,996 6.1
Financial welfare benefits 126,610 19,681 8,450 22,067 176,808 1,331,316 13.3
Subsidy 120,412 18,569 7,936 20,765 167,682 1,059,474 15.8
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 147,197 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 53,827 z Category not applicable
Unemployment temporary protection program and insertion 6,197 1,112 514 1,302 9,126 70,818 12.9
Active income for labour insertion 11,240 1,200 723 2,369 15,532 186,316 8.3
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.
(z) Category not applicable.

Last update: July 21, 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.