• The unemployment benefit
  • Contributory unemployment benefit
  • Unemployment benefit for people who have worked abroad
  • Ongoing income for placement
  • Temporary program of protection for unemployment and insertion
  • Unemployment subsidy upon expiry of contributory benefit
  • Unemployment subsidy for people over 52 years old
  • Unemployment subsidy for loss of job
  • Other unemployment subsidies
  • Contributory benefit and travel abroad
  • Benefit for non-community foreign workers to return to their country of origin
• How can the SOC help me?
• Guidance on finding a job
• Job offers search engine
• Occupational information for newly arrived workers
• Training services
• Training courses search engine
• Frequently asked questions
• Online procedures
• Aids and grants
• Working in the seasonal agricultural campaigns 2009

Other unemployment subsidies

Definition

This subsidy is for people who have returned to Spain from a country outside the EU, the European Economic Area, Australia or Switzerland, who have had a disability pension withdrawn, or who have been released from prison or a centre for minors.

Requisites

• Registration as a jobseeker (How do I register?).
• Duly completed unemployment benefit application form (available from the Employment Office).
• Identification of the applicant, spouse and dependant descendants who feature on the application by means of valid originals of the following documentation:
  • For Spanish citizens: National Identity Document (DNI).
  • For foreign citizens resident in Spain: foreigner’s identity card or identity document from their country of origin, if from the EU, the European Economic Area or Switzerland.
• Official family record book or equivalent document for foreign citizens.
• Certificate of disability and proven degree of the descendants who live with or are dependant on you, issued by the INSS, IMSERSO or competent body (where appropriate).
• Legal ruling or document certifying foster care with proof of consent by the public institution responsible in each region for the protection of minors and date upon which foster care became effective.
• Ruling and/or settlement in the event of separation or divorce.
• Complementary documentation (only when necessary):
  • If necessary, proof of income obtained in the month preceding the application by the applicant, spouse and descendants.
  • Photocopy of the ruling of the finding of improvement file.
  • Company certificates, signed and stamped by the company or companies in which you have worked.
  • Certification issued by the government office or branch office that features evidence of the date of return and time worked in the country of emigration.

Presentation of applications

• From the return to Spain, release from prison, or upon ruling of review of disability, to one month from the occurrence of this event.
• He or she must then be registered for one month as a jobseeker from the day of registration.
• The application must be presented within 15 working days after the end of this month.

Place

At your Employment Office from 8:15 to 13:30 h.

Duration of the benefit

6 months, which may be extended to 18 upon request and if the conditions persist.

Amount received

80% of IPREM (the reference indicator for determining social benefits).