3. FOR WHAT REASONS CAN I STOP COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT?
You may stop receiving unemployment benefits for any of the following reasons:
• Because your benefits have been exhausted due to the expiration of their duration.
• Due to compensation for an improper payment, that is, if you owe an amount to the State Public Employment Service (SEPE).
• Due to the initiation of a sanctioning procedure. The proposed sanction that entails the suspension of benefits would always be communicated to you by certified mail.
• Due to some cause of incompatibility: self-employment or employment, recognition of any pension or economic benefit from Social Security.
• Due to having a non-payment code on your benefits for not having collected the previous month. In this case, you must go to your benefits office, after requesting an appointment online or by telephone.
SOURCE: Frequently Asked Questions section of the website https://www.sepe.es
You may stop receiving unemployment benefits for any of the following reasons:
• Because your benefits have been exhausted due to the expiration of their duration.
• Due to compensation for an improper payment, that is, if you owe an amount to the State Public Employment Service (SEPE).
• Due to the initiation of a sanctioning procedure. The proposed sanction that entails the suspension of benefits would always be communicated to you by certified mail.
• Due to some cause of incompatibility: self-employment or employment, recognition of any pension or economic benefit from Social Security.
• Due to having a non-payment code on your benefits for not having collected the previous month. In this case, you must go to your benefits office, after requesting an appointment online or by telephone.
SOURCE: Frequently Asked Questions section of the website https://www.sepe.es
If you leave a job voluntarily, you cannot receive unemployment benefits since, as established by legal regulations, in order to collect unemployment benefits it is necessary that the termination of employment has not occurred voluntarily, as the unemployment protection system protects workers who want and are able to work but lack employment.
If you subsequently work at a new company and are terminated for not passing the probationary period by decision of the employer, and no more than three months have elapsed since you voluntarily resigned from the previous company, you will not be entitled to unemployment benefits either.
However, if you join another position and this contract ends due to not passing the probationary period by decision of the company, but more than three months have elapsed since the voluntary resignation, you will be entitled to unemployment benefits, provided you meet the other requirements.
2. I AM COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT AND FORGOT TO RENEW MY JOB APPLICATION,
WHAT CONSEQUENCES COULD THIS HAVE ON MY UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS?
To receive unemployment benefits, it is mandatory to register as a job seeker and renew your application while collecting such benefits.
If you forget to renew your application, a sanctioning procedure will be initiated for a minor infraction that may result in the loss of one month of benefits. If you fail to renew it a second time, you will lose three months. If it happens a third time, you will lose six months, and if for a fourth time you do not renew, you will lose the benefits.
For these cases of recidivism, it is not necessary that the breach always be of the same type (in this case, failing to renew the job application). Therefore, this scale will be applied from the first infraction onward, when no more than 365 days have elapsed between one minor infraction and the previous one.