To collect unemployment, the contributory unemployment benefit, it is necessary to prove a series of requirements that, in some cases, must be maintained during the benefit period. Otherwise, the beneficiary risks losing it and being left out of business at that stage.
One of the most important requirements, which is requested as a condition to obtain unemployment and which must also be renewed every three months in order to maintain that right. The employment demand card is understood as the document that certifies that the worker is actively seeking employment.
If the renewal, which is often commonly known as ‘sealing unemployment’, does not take place, it can lead to certain problems for the beneficiary, from interruptions in the collection of the benefit to sanctions that may imply the loss of unemployment.
Clara Martínez, adviser to the General Subdirectorate of Benefits of the Public State Employment Service (SEPE) has explained them. In it, she explained that people who do not renew their job application may face two problems.
In the first place, Martínez has explained that “during the time in which the person is not registered as a job seeker, the SEPE will suspend the payment.” Do not confuse this measure with a sanction, since it is only about the application of the rules to collect unemployment: in the periods in which you are not registered as a job seeker, it is suspended.
This does not mean that the benefit is lost, the only thing that will happen is that the payment of the benefit will be delayed, since during the time in which you are not registered as a job seeker, you do not have the right to receive unemployment: “In Instead of finishing it on the day that it was going to finish it, it will finish it later, but with the break in the middle of the days that it has been without registering”, informs Martínez.
In parallel, and even if the SEPE does not sanction it, not renewing the job application is a punishable act, so in that case the citizen can be notified of a sanction. Before it was the SEPE that did it, but currently it really corresponds to the regional employment services, which are in charge of managing the sanctioning regime.
So are the sanctions
the SEPE classifies as a minor infraction “failing to comply, except for justified cause, with the requirement of maintaining registration as a job seeker, required to continue receiving the benefit”.
The commission of a minor offense implies a penalty of one month of loss of benefit, but if the same offense is committed again the penalty is three months of loss of penalty, if it is done for the third time it entails six months of loss from the fourth the benefit is definitively lost.
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