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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits and coverage rates. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2010
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 339,684 48,427 22,308 53,146 463,566 3,042,734 15.2
Contributory benefits 201,629 26,424 13,016 28,459 269,528 1,471,826 18.3
Contributory 201,421 26,303 12,555 28,216 268,496 1,452,717 18.5
Temporary agricultural workers 208 120 462 243 1,032 19,108 5.4
Financial welfare benefits 132,311 21,431 8,912 23,524 186,178 1,445,228 12.9
Subsidy 109,422 17,513 7,157 19,351 153,443 995,611 15.4
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 153,761 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 45,954 z Category not applicable
Unemployment temporary protection program and insertion 22,889 3,918 1,755 4,173 32,735 249,902 13.1
Active income for labour insertion 5,744 573 380 1,163 7,860 125,680 6.3
Units: Annual averages.
Source: Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social.
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.