This is what you contribute to Social Security, collecting unemployment or a subsidy from SEPE

When a worker loses his job but has the right to receive a contributory unemployment benefit (unemployment), he does not stop contributing to Social Security. The same happens with some subsidies for a certain time. In all these circumstances, the citizen continues to contribute to something as important for his future as retirement.

The State Public Employment Service (SEPE) explains on its website that it is in charge of the amount of Social Security contributions while the worker collects unemployment and is subsequently deducted from the amount of the benefit. In addition, it assumes the business part of the corresponding fee.

In this period of unemployment collection, the worker quotes that 28.3% for common contingencies, those that include retirement coverage (in addition to others such as permanent and temporary disability, widowhood, orphanhood, family benefits …).

The base on which it is quoted, explains the SEPE, is the same as the regulatory base that determines the amount of the benefit. Or what is the same, the average of “the contribution bases to Social Security for professional contingencies, during the last 180 days of contributions, without taking into account overtime,” reports the agency.

However, when the citizen perceives some kind of unemployment benefit it trades differently and not in all cases. According to information from SEPE, contributions are made for retirement by collecting the subsidy for those over 52 years of age or by collecting the subsidy for permanent discontinuous workers if they are 52 or more years old.

For all these people, the contribution base on which contributions are made for retirement will be equivalent to 125% of the minimum contribution base in force at each time the benefit is collected.

In parallel, if the discontinuous permanent workers who receive the subsidy are under 52 years of age, they can also contribute for retirement as long as they prove at least 180 days of contribution: they will do so during the first 60 days of receiving the benefit and on the minimum basis of current quotation at all times.