The new rule, among other things, allows you to work and collect both the subsidy and the premium benefit, and maintains the premium base for people over 52 at 125%.
He Ministry of Labor of the government of Spain has reached an agreement with the trade unions UGT and CCOO to reform the paymentwithout the support of the employers’ organizations CEOE and Cepyme.
This was reported early this morning by both the Spanish executive and the unions, who spent all day yesterday analyzing the text of the reform and finalizing the final drafting details.
As announced by the Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, and the Secretaries General of CCOO, Unai Sordo, and UGT, Pepe Álvarez, they will sign the agreement this Wednesday (at 12 noon).
The unemployment benefits reform that has finally emerged from the EU social dialogue table It includes some new features compared to the proposal that defeated Congress in January, including new rules to make unemployment aid compatible with employment.
The most important Keys:
– This reform will make it possible to make the social assistance benefit compatible with employment for a period of up to 180 days, without reducing the amount, or to combine the contributory benefit with a salary from the year in which unemployment is received.
– The new reform will also maintain the measures of the previous one, such as the simplification of the administrative procedures to access the subsidy, with the abolition of the waiting month for people who have exhausted their contribution benefit and the subsidy want to apply.
– The contribution base for subsidies for people over 52 years old will remain at 125% of the interprofessional minimum wage (SMI), compared to the reduction introduced in the first reform and which motivated the rejection by Podemos, as it reduced the amounts. of the future pension.
– Regarding the amounts, the improvement included in the non-validated reform is maintained in the new text proposed by Labor to the social actors, so that they will be established in three sections during the first twelve months of perception: the subsidy will be 95. % of the Iprem during the first six months of collection (570 euros per month with the current Iprem); 90% for the next six months (540 euros) and the current 80% for the rest of the duration of the benefit (480 euros).
– Victims of gender or sexual violence can now claim the grant, as can people under 45 without family responsibilities and temporary agricultural workers.
Source: EITB
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