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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2015
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 220,753 31,279 15,607 36,558 304,197 2,224,172 13.7
Contributory benefits 102,575 14,067 7,675 15,116 139,433 838,392 16.6
Contributory 102,335 13,918 6,897 14,801 137,951 813,953 16.9
Temporary agricultural workers 240 150 778 315 1,482 24,439 6.1
Financial welfare benefits 94,821 14,302 6,369 16,790 132,282 1,102,529 12.0
Subsidy 94,821 14,302 6,369 16,790 132,282 901,885 14.7
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 122,422 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 78,223 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 21,608 2,695 1,437 4,236 29,977 249,470 12.0
Employment activation programme 1,749 215 126 416 2,506 33,781 7.4
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 25, 2016.

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.