This is the rule to calculate the time you can collect unemployment according to your days quoted

As it is a contributory benefit, unemployment requires a prior contribution for its collection. Of course, unlike pensions, its collection period is limited and in any case depends on those contributions that the worker has been making over the years.

The key is in the unemployment contributions. They represent 7.05% of the contribution base (the company pays 5.5% and the worker contributes 1.55%) and are the ones that mark the employee’s right to receive unemployment or not.

As explained by the Public State Employment Service (SEPE) in its , the unemployment collection period “is calculated taking into account the time of employment quoted for unemployment during the six years prior to the legal situation of unemployment.”

The SEPE reflects what is stated in the General Social Security Law, which regulates in article 269 (see ) the duration of the contributory unemployment benefit. According to what is collected in the article, a minimum of 360 days of unemployment contributions is needed to be entitled to unemployment. From there, different sections are established: with more prior contributions, a longer period of time for collecting unemployment is achieved.

The key is to follow a very simple rule: counting from those 360 ​​days that entitle you to the minimum period, for every 180 days quoted, 60 days of extra unemployment payment are added. These periods can be added up to reach the maximum time that unemployment can be collected: a total of two years, 720 days.

-With the minimum of 360 days of unemployment contributions, the citizen will be entitled to 120 days of benefit.

-When you have contributed from 540 to 719 days for unemployment, you can collect unemployment for 180 days.

-When you have contributed from 720 to 899 days for unemployment, you can collect unemployment up to 240 days.

-When you have contributed from 900 to 1,079 days for unemployment, you can collect unemployment for 300 days.

-If you have contributed from 1,080 to 1,259 days for unemployment, you can collect unemployment for up to 360 days.

-If you have contributed from 1,260 days to 1,439 days for unemployment, you can collect unemployment for 420 days.

-When you have contributed from 1,440 to 1,619 days as unemployment, you can collect unemployment for 480 days.

-If you have contributed from 1,620 days to 1,799 days as unemployment, you can collect unemployment for 540 days.

-When you have contributed from 1,800 to 1,979 days for unemployment, you can receive unemployment for 600 days.

-If you have contributed from 1,980 to 2,159 days for unemployment, you can collect unemployment up to 660 days.

-When 2,160 days of unemployment contributions are reached, unemployment may be collected in its maximum period, 720 days in duration.

What will be the amount of unemployment according to the time you collect it

Collecting unemployment benefits for the entire maximum time allowed does not, however, mean that the same amount is always charged. The SEPE that 70% of the worker’s regulatory base will be received during the first 180 days and that, from that moment, the amount is reduced to 50% of that regulatory base until the end of the collection period.

However, there are minimum and maximum regulated amounts:

-The minimum amount of unemployment for people without children will be 540.41 euros per month and 722.80 euros per month for workers with children.

-The maximum amount of unemployment is 1,182.16 euros per month, 1,351.04 euros per month for people with one child and 1,519.92 euros per month for people with two or more children.