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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2023
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 163,344 26,128 12,944 28,550 230,967 1,774,534 13.0
Contributory benefits 95,936 15,326 7,827 15,407 134,496 801,091 16.8
Contributory 95,753 15,209 7,241 15,171 133,374 778,853 17.1
Temporary agricultural workers 182 118 586 236 1,122 22,239 5.0
Financial welfare benefits 62,097 9,947 4,636 11,891 88,570 875,969 10.1
Subsidy 62,097 9,947 4,636 11,891 88,570 719,536 12.3
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 82,016 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 74,417 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 5,312 855 481 1,252 7,900 97,474 8.1
Employment activation programme .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Annual averages.
Source: Ministry of Labour and Social Economy.
Note: The agricultural subsidy is only applicable to the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Andalucía.
(z) Category not applicable.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: May 14, 2024.

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.