If you look affected by RIT ERTE or access to protection by unemployment, you must meet the following requirements:

• In the public employment services for Self-Government.
• Other than ERTE by force majeure authorized by the labour authorities, to receive contributory benefit, you will need to have worked and contributed to unemployment at least 360 days, within six years prior to the legal status of unemploymentand did not use such rates for a benefit. If you have completed the period under 360 days, you will receive an allowance for unemployment if, in addition to the rest of requirements, you should not be in excess of income 75 % the minimum wage in force, without taking into account the proportionate share of two extraordinary pay(Amounts for this year).
• There are No ordinary jubilarte, except for that you have not yet completed the qualifying sufficient time to access the contributory retirement pension or your contract has been suspended or have been reduced to your daily work by ERTE.
• 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.

In case of contract suspension, it must be agreed at the appropriate procedure, temporary and be caused by economic, technical, organizational, production, or force majeure.

In case of reduced working hours of work similar to a reduction of the salary, it must be agreed at the appropriate procedure for economic, technical, organizational, production or force majeure. Must be a temporary measure and the reduction may be of between 10 and seventy percent computed on the basis of the day daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis.

Obligations, infractions and sanctions

• Official model request contributory benefitor unemployment benefit.
• Identification of the applicant and the children who live or are responsible for the application; enough with the exhibition of one of these documents 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 citizen/a. European Union, containing 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 number and passport.
• Any bank document which includes the number of the seas and that you wish to receive the benefit.
• 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.
• Company certificate of the past 6 months (if it has not been submitted by the company to the public employment service Estatal).

If you submit the request of unemployment benefit within the legally established, entitlement to benefit obtained the day after extinguished or suspend their contract, or the day following the reduction of working hours, unless otherwise later date or due to reasons of force majeure, and provided that before that date the company has communicated to the labour department action as appropriate.

If the temporary suspension or termination of the employment relationship or reduced working hours daily, are taken in a bankruptcy procedure, the right to unemployment benefit is obtained from the date on which the judge to agree to such measures, although the auto setting retroactive effects.

You can submit an application through:

• The electronic site SEPE.
• In the office of benefits (office of employment in the case of Ceuta and Melilla) asking in the electronic site SEPEor telephone.
• In any public registration office.
• Administrative mail.