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Unemployment benefit contribution

While you are receiving unemployment benefits, Social Security contributions are paid by the State Public Employment Service (SEPE). This assumes the business contribution and will deduct 100% of the corresponding fee from the amount of your benefit.

If you have accessed the benefit for the termination of your employment contract, you will contribute to Social Security for the common contingencies of: retirement, permanent disability, death and survival, temporary disability, family protection and health care. You will not contribute for unemployment, work accidents and occupational illness, Salary Guarantee Fund and Vocational Training.

The Social Security contribution base for the unemployment benefit will be the same as its regulatory base, regardless of the limits that apply to the monthly amount of said benefit.

If you are a fixed or discontinuous agricultural employee, the SEPE is responsible for 73.50% of the Social Security contribution that corresponds to you, so it will not be deducted from your benefit.

If you resume the benefit after having suspended it or opt for a new benefit that may have been generated, the contribution bases are those of the benefit that is resumed or those of the new one, respectively.