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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2018
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 163,496 25,119 12,428 28,968 230,011 1,804,668 12.7
Contributory benefits 90,103 13,207 6,798 14,180 124,288 751,172 16.5
Contributory 89,779 13,019 5,873 13,761 122,432 720,641 17.0
Temporary agricultural workers 325 188 926 419 1,857 30,530 6.1
Financial welfare benefits 60,210 9,986 4,512 12,035 86,743 853,437 10.2
Subsidy 60,210 9,986 4,512 12,035 86,743 662,138 13.1
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 107,500 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 83,798 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 11,524 1,645 952 2,352 16,472 166,082 9.9
Employment activation programme 1,659 281 166 401 2,507 33,978 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: June 17, 2019.

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.