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Requirements and amount

Requirements


In general:

  • You must be registered as a job seeker for one month and not have refused any suitable job offer, nor have refused to take part in promotion, training or re-training actions without just cause.
  • You must not have income of any kind that, calculated on a monthly basis, is in excess of 75% of the Minimum Professional Wage in force, excluding the proportional part of extraordinary payments.

The claimant must also be in one of the following situations:

  • You have used up the contributory benefit and have family responsibilities.
  • You have used up the contributory benefit, do not have family responsibilities and are over 45 years old on the date the contributory benefit is fully used up.
  • You are a returned emigrant from a country that does not form part of the European Economic Area, or does not have an Agreement in place with Spain for unemployment protection, you are not entitled to received the contributory benefit having worked abroad for at least 12 months out of the last six years in those countries since you last left Spain.
  • You have been released from prison and are not entitled to receive the contributory benefit, provided that the imprisonment term was in excess of six months, and people who have had their sentences suspended as a result of having undergone a drug rehabilitation treatment for at least 6 months.
  • You have been declared fully able or partially disabled.  
  • You are legally unemployed, are not entitled to benefit due to not having reached the 360-day contribution period, provided that you have contributed at least three months if you have family responsibilities, or six months if you do not have family responsibilities, and do not have to fulfil the requisite one-month waiting period.
  • You are over 52 years old, having made 6 years' unemployment contributions throughout your working life, and fulfil all retirement requirements with the exception of age, and you are in one of the situations listed above.

    If, on the date on which they are in any of the situations envisaged in the previous sections, the workers have not reached the age of fifty-two, but, since that date, they have been continuously registered as job seekers with the public employment services, they may apply for the benefit when they reach that age. For these purposes, the requirement of uninterrupted registration shall be deemed to be fulfilled when each of the possible interruptions has lasted less than ninety days, not counting periods corresponding to the performance of activity as an employee or self-employed person. In the latter case, the worker is not entitled to the benefit if the termination of the last job was voluntary.

    In order to keep the allowance for the over-52s, you must submit an annual declaration of your income.


Amount


  • 80% of the Public Indicator of Multiple Effect Income (IPREM): 80% * 600.00€/month = 480.00€/month. 

    • In the case of unemployment due to the loss of a part-time job,  said amount will be received in proportion to the hours previously worked when the contributory benefit has been exhausted, with or without family responsibilities, or when the person is in a legal situation of unemployment, which is included in the previous section, when for these reasons they receive the allowance for the over 52s, it will be received without part-time work.  
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