This increase is due to the fact that the government increased the regulatory base to 60% in July from the sixth month of receipt
The unemployed who have been receiving unemployment benefits for six months will receive an average of 100 euros more per month from this Friday, February 10, corresponding to the monthly benefit of January, after the increase to 60 euros takes effect in 2023. % of the regulatory basis to calculate the benefit from the seventh month.
As the second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, recalled on her social networks, “the cuts imposed by the PP are not being implemented”, reducing the legal base to 50% to pay unemployment benefits from the first 180 days to calculate .
«Today, unemployed people see their benefits increased by an average of 100 euros. We have reclaimed rights against the cuts imposed by the PP. The regulatory base of 60% is back in effect, not 50%, from the seventh month of collection,” Díaz posted on his Twitter account.
The Ministry of Labor and Social Economy has, in the 2023 State General Budget (PGE), reclaimed unemployment benefits equivalent to 60% of the statutory base, reduced to 50%, from 180 days during the popular government of Mariano Rajoy. As a result of this change, the unemployed receive an average of 100 euros more, until they receive a benefit of almost 1,000 euros per month from the seventh month of payment.
Last November, Díaz defended before Congress that this measure will allow beneficiaries to maintain their purchasing power “in the face of an inflation that is really impossible”. Payment of benefits by the Public Employment Service (SEPE) is made between the 10th and the 15th of the following month, or if it is a holiday, the next working day of each month.
Source: La Verdad
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