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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits and coverage rates. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2007
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 151,035 19,887 7,519 21,321 199,762 1,421,480 14.1
Contributory benefits 111,941 14,280 5,429 15,545 147,194 780,205 18.9
Contributory 111,850 14,221 5,327 15,375 146,772 771,600 19.0
Temporary agricultural workers 91 59 102 170 422 8,605 4.9
Financial welfare benefits 37,245 5,471 2,021 5,508 50,244 575,676 8.7
Subsidy 37,245 5,471 2,021 5,508 50,244 373,891 13.4
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 175,190 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 26,594 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 1,850 137 69 268 2,324 65,600 3.5
Units: Annual averages.
Source: Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración.
Note: The agricultural subsidy is only applicable to the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Andalucía.
(z) Category not applicable.

Last update: July 22, 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.