The SEPE notice: this is the new method of renewal of the job application

The job application is a key document to be able to collect unemployment or any of the subsidies paid by the SEPE (State Public Employment Service) to the unemployed and that must be renewed while the workers remain in the same legal situation as unemployment.

Like obtaining the job demand card, the renewal of said card means that the worker, in the eyes of the SEPE, continues to be registered as a job seeker. This, in practice, means that the worker is considered a job seeker.

The SEPE has warned in his profile of the social network Twitter that him method of renewal of job demand is no longer automatic in many autonomous communities. This is because, with the improvement of the epidemiological situation due to the coronavirus pandemic, the automatic renewal of the job demand that was imposed after the confinement of March 2020 has been eliminated due to the fact that the care in the offices of the SEPE was deleted.

However, this return to the traditional model has not been homogeneous, since it has depended on each autonomous community. In mid-2021, several regions chose to cancel the automatic renewal of the request (Madrid was one of the last to do so), and in the face of the possibility of confusion, the SEPE recommends that citizens contact “your regional service of employment to know what is the procedure that they have established in relation to the renewal “.

The SEPE, at its Electronic Headquarters, has the service ‘Demand procedures‘, in which access to the services of each autonomous community is facilitated in the section’ Access your Autonomous Community ‘. By clicking on the corresponding community, you will be able to carry out the procedures that this administration allows (here you have the complete list). Access to this online processing of the job application can be achieved by means of a digital certificate (you can obtain it in four simple steps) or an electronic DNI.

If the citizen resides in the cities of Ceuta or Melilla, he can renew the job application online and through the ‘My application procedures’ service. There they will be able not only to renew it, but also to register as applicants, obtain a duplicate of the application …

The citizen can also choose to do the face-to-face renewal at the SEPE office that corresponds to your address. To do this, you must make an appointment in advance, something you can do by calling the 24-hour telephone number 91 273 83 84. The agency has a list of telephone numbers for its provincial offices on its website, which is also useful.

In addition, the SEPE allows you to obtain a prior appointment through its Electronic Headquarters, in the service ‘Make an appointment to be attended by the SEPE‘, with digital certificate, electronic DNI or Cl @ ve PIN. You can also get an appointment by filling out a pre-application form available on the SEPE website.