Requirements, regulatory base, amount and limits.

Requirements

• Affiliated to Social Security and currently inscribed or have a situation assimilated to inscription.
• Have paid contributions for a minimum period of 360 days during the previous six years prior to becoming legally unemployed or from the date that the obligation to pay contributions ended.
• Be legally unemployed, show evidence of availability to actively seek employment and to accept a suitable placement by signing the activity agreement referred to in Article 3 of Law 3/2023 of 28 February, the Employment Act.
• To have not reached the standard age of entitlement to a retirement pension.
• Be registered as a job seeker with the relevant Public Employment Service

An activity agreementis understood to be the documented agreement by which rights and obligations are established between the applicant for public employment services and the corresponding Public Employment Service in order to increase the employability of the applicant, attending, where appropriate, to the needs of priority groups.

A suitable placement is understood to be a placement in the profession requested by the worker, in accordance with his or her training, professional characteristics, previous experience or work interests, and also that which corresponds to his or her usual profession or any other that matches his or her physical and training aptitudes.

In the latter two cases, in addition, the offer must involve a salary equivalent to that established in the sector in which the job is offered.

The placement offered must be indefinite and with a salary, in no case, lower than the minimum interprofessional wage.

Within the framework of the voluntarily accepted activity agreement, an appropriate placement shall also be that which is agreed within the insertion pathway, including fixed-term placement for the replacement of a worker with the right to job reservation, provided that the name of the person replaced and the reason for the replacement are specified in the contract, and that it is a part-time placement. It is only in this context that a placement in a location other than the worker's place of residence is appropriate.

Regulatory Base

Average of the unemployment contribution basis for the last 180 working days, not counting payment for working overtime.

Amount

• 70% of the Base Pension for the first 180 days.
• 60% of the Base Pension for the rest of the benefit payment period.

Limits

• Minimum:

  • No children: 80% of the monthly Public Income Indicator with Multiple Effects (IPREM) in force at the time when the entitlement comes into effect, increased by one  sixth (560.00 euros/month for benefits starting in 2023).
  • With children: 107% of the monthly IPREM in force at the time when the entitlement comes into effect, increased by one sixth (749 euros/month for benefits starting in 2023).

• Maximum:

  • No children: 175% of the monthly IPREM in force at the time when the entitlement comes into effect, increased by one sixth (1225 euros/month for benefits starting in 2023).
  • With one child: 200% of the monthly IPREM in force at the time when the entitlement comes into effect, increased by one sixth (1400 euros/month for benefits starting in 2023).
  • With two or more children: 225% of the monthly IPREM in force at the time when the entitlement comes into effect, increased by one sixth (1575 euros/month for benefits starting in 2023).

In the case of unemployment due to the loss of a part-time job, the maximum and minimum limit of the benefit will be calculated by applying the percentage equivalent to the actual hours worked in a part-time day divided by the company's normal working day to the established minimum and maximum limits.

Incompatibility

Unemployment benefits shall be incompatible:

1. Self-employment, even if it does not involve compulsory inclusion in one of the social security schemes or in a mutual benefit society alternative to the Special Social Security Scheme for Self-Employed Workers.
2. With the receipt of contributory benefits of a financial nature from the Social Security, unless these were compatible with the work that gave rise to the unemployment benefit.
3. With the social protection measures of the RED Mechanism if you are a worker affected by it.
4. With the social protection measures for temporary redundancies due to force majeure, if you are affected by redundancy.
5. Unemployment benefit shall be incompatible with work as an employee, except when the latter is part-time and the worker has requested compatibility, in which case the amount of the benefit shall be deducted in proportion to the time worked. If compatibility is requested within 15 working days from the date of commencement of employment, it shall apply from that date. Otherwise, it shall apply from the date of application, provided that the application is submitted within 12 months of the date on which the employment relationship commenced. The deduction referred to in the previous paragraph shall be made not only when the worker is receiving unemployment benefit as a result of the loss of a full-time or part-time job and obtains a new part-time job, but also when they have several part-time contracts and loses one of them.
6. With the receipt of non-contributory Social Security retirement benefits.

Employment Support Supplement (CAE)

For those who, being recipients of contributory unemployment benefits born before 1 April 2025, whose entitlement period is longer than twelve months, from that date, and once the first nine months have been accrued, begin a full-time employment relationship, the unemployment benefit will be made compatible as a supplement to support employment, at the request of the beneficiary.

If the application is submitted within fifteen working days of the start of the employment relationship, the employment support allowance will be paid from the start of the employment relationship. If the application is submitted after this deadline, it shall take effect from the date of submission of the application.

The amount and duration of the employment support supplement applicable to contributory benefits shall be determined in accordance with the following table:

In determining the maximum duration, account shall be taken of the month of the benefit in which the compatibility begins. The amount of the employment support allowance shall be determined, each month from the thirteenth month onwards, on the basis of the working hours agreed at the start of the compatibility and the month in which the recipient of the employment support allowance is at any given time.

During the period of receipt, regardless of the percentage applied, as many days of the duration of the benefit will be consumed as the number of days received as employment support supplement.

Its maximum duration shall be 180 days, which may be received in one or successive periods of compatibility, subject to the limit of the number of days remaining to be received of the maximum duration of the recognised benefit. Once the above limit has been reached or the maximum duration of the benefit has been exhausted, the benefit will be suspended for work as an employed person and subject to the general conditions of resumption for this reason or termination due to exhaustion, respectively.

The termination or suspension of the employment relationship, or the interruption of the permanent discontinuous activity that has given rise to the employment support supplement, must be notified to the managing body by the beneficiary, within the following fifteen working days, and will imply the suspension of the benefit, which may be resumed without compatibility upon request by the interested party, provided that they can prove that they are legally unemployed and registered as a jobseeker.

However, if on the date of termination or suspension of this employment relationship, or of interruption of the activity, another one is maintained, the employment support supplement may continue to be paid as regulated in this section, after adjusting its amount taking into account the ordinary working day agreed and the quarter in which the subsidy is at the time the variation takes effect.

Unemployment benefit may not be combined with paid employment when the contract is made by:

(a) Companies with an authorised redundancy programme at the time of recruitment

(b) Firms in which the unemployed person receiving the benefit has worked in the previous 12 months.

Nor shall the compatibility provided for in this section be applied with respect to employment relationships suspended by virtue of a redundancy plan or the RED Mechanism, or in the case of hiring affecting the spouse, ascendants, descendants and other relatives by blood or marriage, or if applicable by adoption, up to and including the second degree, of the employer or of those who hold management positions or are members of the administrative bodies of the entities or companies that have the legal form of a company, as well as those that occur with the latter.

During the period of receipt of the full-time employment support supplement compatible with unemployment benefit, the managing body will not pay social security contributions.