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Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries. Provinces

Unemployment benefits. Beneficiaries by type of benefit. Provinces 2020
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 299,838 47,001 18,938 48,850 414,627 2,974,850 13.9
Contributory benefits 221,165 33,355 12,973 31,821 299,314 1,828,489 16.4
Contributory 220,932 33,176 12,217 31,451 297,776 1,795,461 16.6
Temporary agricultural workers 233 180 756 370 1,538 33,028 4.7
Financial welfare benefits 71,856 12,430 5,288 15,533 105,106 1,017,429 10.3
Subsidy 71,856 12,430 5,288 15,533 105,106 838,611 12.5
Temporary agricultural workers 0 0 0 0 0 97,566 z Category not applicable
Income agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 81,253 z Category not applicable
Active income for labour insertion 6,818 1,216 677 1,496 10,206 128,923 7.9
Employment activation programme 0 0 0 0 0 9 3.6
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.