These are the types of SEPE unemployment benefits that you can request according to your case
The Public State Employment Service (SEPE) has published information on its social networks about the different subsidies, aids and benefits that the public body grants to citizens based on their various employment or socioeconomic situations.
As reported by the public agency through Twitter, there are various assistance benefits, each one of them attending to different circumstances of the applicant. These are all the unemployment benefits granted by the SEPE:
Subsidy for insufficient contributions
This subsidy is intended for unemployed workers who have worked less than a year. These citizens are entitled to an unemployment benefit whose duration “will depend on the number of months contributed and whether or not they have family responsibilities”, as established on the SEPE website.
The requirements to access this benefit are:
- be unemployed
- Be registered as a job seeker and sign the activity commitment
- Have contributed for at least three months (if you have dependents) or a minimum of six (if you do not have dependents); and less than a year
- Do not receive income higher than 75% of the minimum wage
The duration of the benefit will depend on the number of months contributed and whether you have family responsibilities:
- If you have family responsibilities, the benefit will last the same months that you have contributed. The amount will be 80% of the public multiple-effect income indicator (IPREM), that is, 480 euros per month.
Exhaustion allowance with family responsibilities
This benefit is aimed at unemployed workers who have exhausted the contributory subsidy and have family responsibilities under their care.
The requirements to access this benefit are:
- be unemployed
- Be registered as a job seeker
- Not having refused a “suitable placement offer”
- Sign the activity agreement
- Having family responsibilities
- Do not receive income higher than 75% of the minimum wage
The duration, as explained on the SEPE website, “will be 6 months, extendable for six-month periods, depending on the duration of the unemployment benefit that you have exhausted and your age”:
- If you are under 45 years of age and have exhausted a contributory benefit of at least 4 months, you will be entitled to 6 months of subsidy, extendable up to a maximum of 18 months.
- If you are under 45 years of age and have exhausted a contributory benefit of at least 6 months, you will be entitled to 6 months of subsidy, extendable up to a maximum of 24 months.
- If you are over 45 years of age and a 4-month contributory benefit has been exhausted, you will be entitled to 6 months of subsidy, extendable up to a maximum of 24 months.
- If you are over 45 years of age and have exhausted a contributory benefit of at least 6 months, you will be entitled to 6 months of subsidy, extendable up to a maximum of 30 months.
The amount will be 80% of the public multiple-effect income indicator (IPREM), that is, 480 euros per month.
Subsidy for returned emigrants
This benefit is aimed at emigrants who return to Spain after a stay abroad. The requirements are:
- be unemployed
- Return to Spain from countries that are not part of the European Union, the European Economic Area or Switzerland.
- Be registered as a job seeker
- Sign the activity agreement
- Having worked a minimum of twelve months in the last six years since leaving Spain in countries that do not belong to the European Economic Area or Switzerland.
- Not being entitled to the contributory unemployment benefit for contributions that he had accumulated in the six years prior to his departure from Spain
- Do not receive income higher than 75% of the minimum wage
The duration, as clarified from the SEPE, is six months, which can be extended up to a maximum of 18 months.. The amount will be 80% of the public multiple-effect income indicator (IPREM), that is, 480 euros.
Subsidy for released from prison
This benefit is aimed at citizens who are released from prison after serving their prison sentence. For them, the requirements to access an unemployment benefit are:
- be unemployed
- Be registered as a job seeker
- Not having refused a “suitable placement offer”
- Sign the activity agreement
- Not being entitled to the contributory unemployment benefit.
- Having been released or released from prison, provided that the deprivation of liberty has been for a period of more than six months.
- Do not receive income higher than 75% of the minimum wage
According to the SEPE, the duration is six months, which can be extended up to a maximum of 18 months.. The amount will be 80% of the public multiple-effect income indicator (IPREM), that is, 480 euros.
Subsidy for people over 52 years of age
Those over 52 years of age, as stated by the Public State Employment Service (SEPE), are entitled to an unemployment subsidy for those over 52 years of age if they have exhausted the contributory benefit.
These are the requirements:
- Being unemployed
- Age 52 or older
- Have exhausted the contributory benefit
- Be registered as a jobseeker for one month from the end of the unemployment benefit
- Sign the activity agreement
- Lack of income above 75% of the SMI
- Proof of having contributed for retirement for a minimum of 15 years
- Have contributed unemployment for a minimum of 6 years.
For this benefit, the amount is 80% of the IPREM (about 480 euros per month) and the duration, if the requirements are met, is until the age required to be entitled to the Social Security contributory pension (retirement) is reached. .