Unemployment in Spain is becoming so chronic and entrenched that a million unemployed people do not receive any kind of benefit, neither premium nor assistance, mainly because time is up and they have already used up this aid, although it may also be due because they do not meet the necessary requirements to access it. Whatever the cause, it is such a high percentage that it represents more than a third of the more than 2.8 million registered unemployed in Spain at the end of 2022, 35% of the total, CC OO denounced on Wednesday during the presentation of the report ‘Labour market and unemployment protection. Year 2022’. Moreover, the number of people without benefits has increased sharply since 2009, despite the fact that most people already have work experience. So if 17% of unemployed people with work experience did not receive benefits 14 years ago, they have increased by more than ten percentage points at the end of 2019 to 29% and exceed 750,000. “These people are the ones suffering the effects of the benefit coverage gaps given the difficulty of getting back into a job or contributing long enough, and also benefits like the CC AA minimum income at the time, or the minimum vital income cannot bridge these gaps due to excessive demands or difficulties in obtaining assistance,” warns the study prepared by the union. This lack of coverage for a very large number of registered unemployed is due to the high long-term unemployment that has existed in the country for years and cannot be reduced even in times of greatest economic prosperity. In fact, at the moment, while the labor market is growing at a rate not seen in more than a decade, there are still 1,359,800 long-term unemployed, 45% of the unemployed, and nearly seven in ten, the 67% been unemployed for some time. more than two years and even more than 610,000 (22% of the total) have been unsuccessfully looking for a job for more than four years, so if they had access to the benefit, and to the has been exhausted, since it received for maximum 24 months. People over 45 and especially women are most affected by these long periods of unemployment, which often lead to situations of structural unemployment and social exclusion, emphasizes this study, which shows the worst situation of unemployed women compared to men. For example, 34.4% of unemployed women with work experience have no access to benefits, compared to 21.5% of men, and the coverage rate is also much lower in the case of women, protecting only the 63%, compared to 76, 75 coverage for men. This is another gender gap that exists in the field of unemployment protection, due to the fact that women’s careers are shorter and more interrupted, and are not being acted upon like the women’s gender gap. , CC OO’s Confederal Secretary of Social Security and Complementary Welfare.
Source: La Verdad
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