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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2014
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 261,864 36,930 18,094 42,989 359,878 2,542,977 14.2
Contributory benefits 128,588 17,436 9,556 19,051 174,630 1,059,799 16.5
Contributory 128,353 17,275 8,776 18,751 173,154 1,035,740 16.7
Temporary agricultural workers 236 161 779 300 1,476 24,059 6.1
Financial welfare benefits 109,978 16,675 7,061 19,580 153,294 1,221,390 12.6
Subsidy 109,978 16,675 7,061 19,580 153,294 1,020,117 15.0
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 128,144 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 73,129 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 23,298 2,819 1,477 4,359 31,953 261,788 12.2
Units: Annual averages.
Source: Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security.
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.