If you are an applicant or beneficiary of unemployment benefits, you have the following obligations:

1. Contribute to unemployment.
2. Provide the documentation and information necessary for the recognition, suspension, termination or resumption of the right to benefits.
3. Communicate to the Autonomous Public Employment Service and the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) the address to receive notifications and, if you have changed addresses, communicate this change at the time it occurs. If it is not guaranteed that you can receive the communications at the address you have provided, you will be obliged to provide the Autonomous Public Employment Service and the SEPE with the necessary data to be able to carry out the communication by electronic means.
4. Register as a job seeker, maintain registration and meet the job’s requirements Agreement of Activity.
5. Appear before the SEPE, the public employment service or the placement agencies when they previously require you.
6. Actively seek employment and participate in actions to improve your employability determined by the public employment service within an integration itinerary.
7. When you are required or required to do so, you must accredit to the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), the Social Institute of the Navy and the regional public employment services, the actions you have carried out aimed at the active search for employment, your reintegration into employment or the improvement of your employability.
8. To participate in employment programmes or vocational promotion, training or retraining activities, which establish the public employment service or the Placement agencies(when you collaborate with them).
9. Accept the proper placementthat the public employment service or the placement agencies have offered you.
10. Return, within five days, to the public employment service or, where appropriate, to the placement agencies (when they collaborate with it), the proof of having presented you at the place and date indicated to cover the job offer that they have offered you.
11. Apply for the withdrawal of unemployment benefits when situations of incompatibility, suspension or extinction of the right occur or fail to meet the requirements required for their receipt, at the time of the production of such situations.
12. Communicate, within the following fifteen working days, the termination of the work that led to the recognition of the Employment Support Supplement.
13. Request, within a period of fifteen working days following the date of notification of the ex officio approval of the Employment Support Supplement, the reduction in it, when the work for which you have been granted such a supplement is one of those excluded from that possibility. (See section Contributory benefits born from the 1 of April 2025 ).
14. Reintegrate the benefits that you have received improperly.
15. Submit annually the declaration corresponding to the Income Tax of Natural Persons.
16. If you are receiving the subsidy for older workers 52 years, every twelve months from the date of the birth of this subsidy or from the date of the effects of its last resumption, you must submit to the SEPE a Annual statement of your income, accompanied by the appropriate supporting documentation.
17. In the case of subsidies for the exhaustion of the contributory benefit, insufficient contributions for the contributory benefit, returned emigrants and victims of gender or sexual violence, submit the application forExtension of theeach one 3 months accompanied by the documentation accrediting the maintenance of the access requirements within the period of the 15 Working days following the end of the quarterly period.

What is indicated below applies as of the day 1 of November 2024 all contributory benefits and unemployment benefits, regardless of the date of recognition and the date of recognition causative fact.
 

If you are an applicant or beneficiary of unemployment benefits of contributory or assistance level.
 

These are minor infringements:

1. Do not appear, upon request, before the public employment service or the placement agencies when they collaborate with the latter, except for justified cause.
2. Do not return in due time, unless justified cause, to the public employment service or, where appropriate, to the non-profit placement agencies, the corresponding proof that you have appeared at the place and date indicated to cover the job offers provided by them.
3. Failure to comply with the requirements of Agreement of Activity, except for justified cause or force majeure, provided that the conduct is not characterized as another minor or serious violation in this article.
4. Not to provide the public employment service and the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) with the information necessary to guarantee the receipt of their notifications and communications.

These are serious infringements:

1. Do not report, unless there is a justified reason, the loss of unemployment benefits at the time when incompatible situations occur or that determine the suspension or termination of the right, except that you are not registered or registered as a job seeker in the competent public employment service, or when the requirements for the right to receive them are no longer met, provided that for any of these reasons you have improperly received the benefit.
2. Reject an adequate offer of employment, whether offered by the public employment services or by the placement agencies when collaborating with them, except for justified cause.
3. Refuse to participate in actions, programs or activities indicated in the itinerary or personalized plan for the improvement of employability and access to the job market, unless justified cause, offered by public employment services or collaborating entities.

These are very serious infringements:

1. Acting fraudulently in order to:
   • Obtain benefits that are improper or superior to those that correspond.
   • Unduly prolonging their enjoyment by providing false data or documents.
   • Simulate the employment relationship.
   • Omit legally binding statements or other breaches that may cause fraudulent perceptions.
2. Make the application or receipt of the contributory benefit or the unemployment benefit compatible with self-employment or with work for others, except in the cases expressly provided for in the corresponding regulations.
3. Collusion with the entrepreneur or entrepreneur for the improper obtaining of unemployment benefits.
4. The non-application or diversion in the application of unemployment benefits received under the employment promotion programmes.
    

In the case of applicants and beneficiaries of unemployment benefits offences are punishable:

• Theminor offencesare punishable according to the following schedule:
  • 1 .ª infringement. Loss of one month.
  • 2 .ª infringement. Loss of three months of benefits.
  • 3 .ª infringement. Loss of six months of benefits.
  • 4 .ª infringement. Termination of benefits.

These will apply from the first offence and when between the commission of a minor offence and does not have passed the 365 days, regardless of the type of offence.

• Thegrave violationsare punishable according to the following schedule:
  • 1 .ª Infringement. Loss of three months of benefits.
  • 2 .ª Infringement. Loss of six months of benefits.
  • 3 .ª Infringement. Termination of benefits.

These will apply from the first offence and when between the commission of a grave breach and does not have passed the 365 days, regardless of the type of offence.

• Thevery serious offencesare punishable with extinction. You may exclude from the right to receive any financial benefit and, where appropriate, to help promote employment for one year, as well as the right to participate during that period in vocational training for employment.

If the violation of obligations and affect compliance with conservation of the requirements to the provision, may suspend the SEPE cautelarmente the same.