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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2017
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 171,434 26,143 12,622 30,237 240,436 1,862,400 12.9
Contributory benefits 86,154 12,788 6,511 13,562 119,014 726,575 16.4
Contributory 85,858 12,597 5,596 13,166 117,216 697,495 16.8
Temporary agricultural workers 295 191 915 396 1,798 29,079 6.2
Financial welfare benefits 68,595 11,041 4,797 13,175 97,608 902,193 10.8
Subsidy 68,595 11,041 4,797 13,175 97,608 706,294 13.8
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 112,775 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 83,184 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 15,009 2,106 1,165 3,109 21,388 199,614 10.7
Employment activation programme 1,677 208 149 392 2,426 34,018 7.1
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 18, 2018.

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.