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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2016
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 191,814 27,989 14,037 32,708 266,548 2,010,245 13.3
Contributory benefits 91,453 12,993 6,934 13,876 125,256 763,696 16.4
Contributory 91,170 12,838 6,088 13,513 123,609 736,252 16.8
Temporary agricultural workers 283 155 846 363 1,647 27,445 6.0
Financial welfare benefits 81,100 12,466 5,614 14,864 114,044 997,192 11.4
Subsidy 81,100 12,466 5,614 14,864 114,044 799,623 14.3
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 117,350 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 80,220 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 18,248 2,410 1,376 3,698 25,731 225,879 11.4
Employment activation programme 1,013 121 113 270 1,517 23,477 6.5
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 6, 2017.

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.