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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2019
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 171,322 26,026 12,745 30,135 240,228 1,861,100 12.9
Contributory benefits 97,826 14,189 7,106 15,435 134,555 807,614 16.7
Contributory 97,487 14,017 6,183 15,031 132,718 775,214 17.1
Temporary agricultural workers 339 172 923 404 1,837 32,400 5.7
Financial welfare benefits 64,372 10,437 4,796 12,947 92,552 912,384 10.1
Subsidy 64,372 10,437 4,796 12,947 92,552 726,402 12.7
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 102,882 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 83,100 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 9,119 1,398 841 1,751 13,109 140,973 9.3
Employment activation programme 6 3 2 2 13 129 9.7
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: May 12, 2021.

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.