• To be affiliated or affiliate and high or the high statusin the Social security in a regime that contributed to unemployment.
• Available at legal status of unemployment.
• Be registered or registered as a jobseeker and maintain such as registration receipt of the provision, and abide by the the agreement of activitythat is included in the application.
• To access the contributory benefit must be paid to unemployment at least 360 within days 6 years prior to the legal situation of unemployment. If you have contributed least, you can have the right to unemployment benefit.
• There are No ordinary retirement age.
• Do not perform an activity or self-employed work full-time except compatibility, established by a programme for the promotion of employment.
• Not a pension of Social security incompatible with the work.

To apply for unemployment benefit, in general, you will need the following documentation:

• Official application model.
• Identification of the applicant and of children living or under their care and displayed in the application, it is sufficient to show one of the following documents that must be in force:
  • Spanish men and women: National identity document (DNI) or passport.
  • Foreign nationals and foreigners resident in spain:
    • European union nationals:Certificate of registration of a citizen of the european Union containing the NIE, together with the passport or identification document in their country of origin.
    • Non-nationals of the european union:Identity card of Alien/a (TAR) in the NIE, and the passport.

• Any bank document which includes the number of account from which you are incumbent on the one you want to receive the benefit.
• Certificate, which will be sent to the public employment service by the State enterprise or enterprises in which you have worked in the past six months. Only in cases where the certificate of company is not sufficient to justify the legal situation of unemployment, the document in evidence.

• Official family record book or certification of the Civil registration of births or family. In the case of foreign document equivalent to those mentioned above, with official translation into english.

The deadline for filing the request of benefits is 15 working days from the end of the maternity or paternity leave, through:

• The electronic site SEPE.
• In the office of benefits (asking in the electronic site SEPE).
• In any public registration office.
• Administrative mail.

You can get more information on the phone attention to citizenship.