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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits and coverage rates. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2012
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 315,790 43,686 22,012 51,262 432,749 2,942,061 14.7
Contributory benefits 173,371 23,256 12,973 26,162 235,763 1,381,261 17.1
Contributory 173,145 23,099 12,471 25,854 234,569 1,361,561 17.2
Temporary agricultural workers 226 157 502 308 1,194 19,700 6.1
Financial welfare benefits 125,332 18,518 7,975 21,677 173,502 1,327,027 13.1
Subsidy 125,236 18,498 7,965 21,653 173,352 1,124,953 15.4
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 140,203 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 60,814 z Category not applicable
Unemployment temporary protection program and insertion 96 20 10 24 150 1,057 14.2
Active income for labour insertion 17,086 1,913 1,063 3,423 23,485 233,773 10.0
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.