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• Impact on the situation of temporary incapacity on unemployment protection.

• Impact of self-employment on unemployment benefit.

• Regime compatible with paid work applicable from the day 1 June 2025 subsidies for returning emigrants and for victims of violence regulated in the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth additional provisions of the TRLGSS.

• System of compatibility with part-time paid employment applicable from the tenth month to beneficiaries of contributory benefits of more than 12 months’ duration, born from the 1 April 2025 that on the last day of the ninth month of service they are making it compatible as established in the party 2 article 282 of the TRLGSS.

• Resolution of 30 April 2025 the Directorate-General of the State Public Employment Service, which extends the time limits for procedures to be decided by the State Public Employment Service following the generalised interruption of electricity supplies following the 28 April 2025 .

• Special provision of artists provided for the additional provision 51 TRLGSS, added by paragraph 14 the fourth final provision of the Royal Decree-Law 1 / 2023 .

• Modification of the Provisional Instructions for the application, in the field of unemployment protection, of the Royal Decree-Law 32 / 2021 , of 28 in December, on urgent measures for labour reform, ensuring job stability and the transformation of the labour market and the Royal Decree-Law 3 / 2022 off 1 of March.

• Compatibility of unemployment benefits with non-contributory disability benefit

• Accreditation of the article requirement 274 . 4 “IN FINE” TRLGSS. Certificates of the INSS.

• Certificate of company workers at the service of the family home.

• Modification of the article 36 . 2 the Penal Code.

• Elimination of interest on partial compensation for undue charges.

• Application for allowance with family responsibilities in case of birth of children within three hundred days from the date of the causative act

• Suspension of the obligation to file an income tax return for the financial year 2024 by applicants and recipients of unemployment benefits.

• Provisional instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law 1 / 2023 , of 10 in January, urgent measures on incentives for hiring and improving the social protection of artists

• Provisional instructions for the application of the article 10 bis of the Law 5 / 2011 , of Social Economy: capitalization of the unemployment benefit for the acquisition of the status of a working society or transformation into a cooperative by commercial companies in competition

• Provisional instructions for the application of the Organic Law 10 / 2022 , of integral guarantee of sexual freedom

• Impact of aid on subsidies and RAI 200 euros to natural persons of low income and patrimony provided for in the Royal Decree Law 11 / 2022 , of 25 of June.

• Provisional instructions on the social protection of workers affected by the measures of suspension of the contract or reduction of the working day authorized by the labour authority after the activation of the RED Mechanism for Flexibility and Stabilization of Employment.

• Provisional instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law on unemployment protection 4 / 2022 , of 15 in March, which adopts urgent measures to support the agricultural sector due to drought, in terms of protection for unemployment.

• Provisional instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law on unemployment protection 32 / 2021 , of 28 in December, on urgent measures for labour reform, ensuring job stability and the transformation of the labour market and the Royal Decree-Law 3 / 2022 , of 1 of March.

• Provisional instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law on unemployment protection 2 / 2022 , of 22 in February, adopting urgent measures for the protection of self-employed workers, for the transition to structural mechanisms to defend employment, and for the economic and social recovery of the island of La Palma, and extending certain measures to deal with situations of social and economic vulnerability.

• Ceilings on the amount of the contributory benefit: legal situations of unemployment produced on the day 30 or 31-12-2021

• Instructions for the application of the Active Income Insertion Program for the unemployed with special economic needs and difficulty in finding employment, regulated by Royal Decree 1369 / 2006 , of 24 of November.

• Instructions from the General Directorate of Migration for the issuance of the Returned Emigrant Certificate

• Instructions from the State Public Employment Service for the execution of the TES Order/ 1223 / 2021 , of 4 in November, laying down rules for the implementation of the employment and unemployment protection measures provided for in the Act 17 / 2015 , of 9 in July, of the National Civil Protection System, in the areas seriously affected by a civil protection emergency as a result of the storm 'Filomena'.

• Modification Instruction of income and family responsibilities of 07/11/2019 .

• Provisional instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law on unemployment protection 18 / 2021 , of 28 of September, of urgent measures for the protection of employment, economic recovery and improvement of the labour market

• Provisional instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law on unemployment benefit 11 / 2021 , of 27 May, on urgent measures for the defense of employment, economic revival and the protection of self-employed workers
• Instruction on extension of application deadlines and execution of procedures for technical incidents in SEPE’s computer systems
• instruction on the determination of the date of start of benefits in case of ERTE derived from COVID - 19 produced between 30 of September 2020 and the 26 January 2021
• Instruction on the determination of the deadline and the amount of benefits in cases of successive accesses to unemployment protection as a result of different temporary employment regulation procedures derived from COVID - 19 .
• Unemployment benefit for partially retired workers who prove a legal unemployment situation
• Provisional instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law on unemployment protection 2 / 2021 , of 26 January, to strengthen and consolidate social measures in defense of employment
• Provisional instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law on unemployment protection 32 / 2020 , of 3 November, which approves complementary social measures for unemployment protection and support for the cultural sector.
• Provisional instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law on unemployment protection 30 / 2020 , of 29 of September, of social measures in defense of employment.
• Instruction of income and family responsibilities ( 07/11/2019 ) .
• Instructions for the application of the Royal Decree-Law 8 / 2019 urgent social protection measures and measures to combat job insecurity during the working day
• Extension of unemployment protection to all professional athletes.
• Non-Community foreign workers who complete a special employment relationship of residence for the training of specialists in health sciences (MIR) in Spain.
• Provisional instructions for implementation of the Activation Program for Employment regulated by the RDL 16 / 2014 , extended by the RDL 7 / 2017 .
• Provisional instructions on the impact of the ruling of the Constitutional Court 61 / 2018 , of 7 June, in the subsidies for older workers 55 years.
• Provisional instructions for the application of the twenty-seventh additional provision of the TRLGSS that creates and regulates the extraordinary unemployment benefit.
• Instructions on the reduction of the minimum number of real days for access to the agricultural unemployment benefit or to the agricultural income in Andalucía and Extremadura for various reasons.
• Impact on unemployment benefits in some situations of leave.
• Legal possibility to conclude several part-time contracts with the same company and to access unemployment protection after ceasing in one of them while keeping in force another or others.
• Self-employed persons recruiting their children under 18 years of age 30 years.
• Computation of quotations in part-time contracts.
• Interest on delay payable by SEPE
• Occasional loss of the requirement of lack of income or family responsibilities by the beneficiary of the subsidy.
• Instructions from the General Directorate of the State Public Employment Service for the execution of the ESS Order/ 729 / 2017 , of 31 in July, laying down rules for the implementation of the social security measures provided for in the agreements of the Council of Ministers, 9 and 23 December 2016 by which certain autonomous communities and provinces are declared, areas seriously affected by a civil protection emergency, as a result of floods and pedrisco, and measures are taken to repair the damage caused.
• Limitation period in corporate liability procedures.
• Treatment of paid and unenjoyed holidays in temporary work companies (ETT).
• Consideration of strike and lockout periods to determine the duration of the benefit.
• Collection of processing salaries after the recognition of the single payment of the unemployment benefit.
• Accreditation of family responsibilities residing in countries outside the EU/EEA or Switzerland.
• Unemployment benefit: Income Computation .
• Access to the Active Income Insertion Program by long-term unemployed persons.
• Compatibility and incompatibility of unemployment benefits with training or non-work practices.(Cancelled).
• Right of option between allowances for older workers 52 / 55 years and the contributory benefit of agricultural contingents.
• Holders of residence permits under the Act 14 / 2013 off 27 In September, to support entrepreneurs and their internationalization.
• Provisional instructions for access to the subsidy of those released from prison in accordance with the Sixtieth Sixth Additional Provision of the TRLGSS (currently art. 274 . 2 )
• Legal situation of unemployment persons members of cooperatives.