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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits and coverage rates. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2013
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 300,908 41,572 20,713 48,331 411,524 2,865,153 14.4
Contributory benefits 159,671 21,207 11,869 23,237 215,985 1,310,915 16.5
Contributory 159,459 21,059 11,352 22,930 214,801 1,291,315 16.6
Temporary agricultural workers 212 148 517 307 1,184 19,600 6.0
Financial welfare benefits 121,316 17,936 7,600 21,287 168,139 1,313,986 12.8
Subsidy 121,303 17,933 7,598 21,284 168,118 1,111,024 15.1
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 133,343 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 69,511 z Category not applicable
Unemployment temporary protection program and insertion 13 3 2 3 21 108 19.4
Active income for labour insertion 19,922 2,428 1,243 3,807 27,400 240,252 11.4
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: June 26, 2014.

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.