People

Unemployment benefit application

Initial high help over 52 years

In addition to the general requirements, you must meet the following:

If you have worked abroad:

If it has been in the European Union, European Economic Area, Australia or Switzerland, to certify the contributions you must provide Document E-301 or equivalent.

  • Be unemployed and registered as a job seeker for a period of one month from the day following the exhaustion of the contributory benefit, without having rejected the job offer or having refused to participate, unless justified, in promotion, training or professional retraining. Be 52 years of age or older as of the application date. If you accept a placement of less than 12 months during the waiting month, it will be suspended until the end of the month.
  • Have reached 52 years of age on the date of exhaustion of the contributory benefit or unemployment benefit, or have reached this age at the time of meeting the requirements to access any of the following subsidies: for exhaustion of the contributory benefit, returned emigrant, review by improvement of an invalidity, released from prison or insufficient contributions for contributory benefit, or fulfill it during the receipt of these or on the date on which the waiting period of one month is fulfilled in the case of the subsidies that require it.
  • Meet all the requirements, except age, to access the contributory retirement pension in the Spanish Social Security System.
  • Have contributed for unemployment a minimum of 6 years throughout their working life.
  • Be included in any of the following cases:
  • Having exhausted a contributory unemployment benefit.
  • Be a returned emigrant without the right to unemployment tax benefit.
  • Be released from prison without the right to unemployment tax benefit and have been deprived of liberty for more than six months.
    • Have been declared fully capable or partially invalid as a result of a review file for improvement of a situation of great disability, absolute or total permanent disability for the usual profession.
    • Being in a legal unemployment situation, not being entitled to contributory unemployment benefit for not having covered the minimum contribution period (12 months), provided that they have contributed at least three months.

If you have worked abroad:

  • If it has been in the European Union, European Economic Area, Australia or Switzerland, to prove the contributions you must provide Document E-301 or equivalent

List of countries belonging to the European Union, European Economic Area, Switzerland and Australia

Germany

Australia

Austria

Belgium 

Bulgaria 

Cyprus

Denmark 

Slovakia 

Slovenia

Spain 

Estonia

Finland

France

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Iceland

Italy

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Norway

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

United Kingdom

Czech Republic

Romania

Sweden

Switzerland

  • Si ha trabajado en un país que tenga convenio con España en materia de jubilación, para acreditar las cotizaciones deberá aportar documento donde conste toda su vida laboral en dicho país.

Relación de países pertenecientes a la Unión Europea, Espacio Económico Europeo, Suiza y Australia

Andorra

Dominican Republic

Peru

Argentina

Ecuador

Russia

Australia

United States

Tunisia

Brazil

Philippines

Ukraine

Canada (except Quebec)

Morocco

Uruguay

Chile

Mexico

Venezuela

Colombia

Paraguay

The maximum duration of this subsidy will be until you reach the age that allows you to access the contributory retirement pension.

During the receipt of the subsidy for people over 52 years of age, the State Public Employment Service will pay for the retirement contingency, the contribution base being 125 percent of the minimum contribution limit in force at any given time.

This subsidy will not apply to discontinuous permanent workers, including those who perform permanent and periodic jobs that are repeated on certain dates while maintaining said condition.

Workers who have exhausted a contributory benefit for eventual farmers may not have direct access to this subsidy, even if they meet the rest of the requirements.