He Public State Employment Service (Sepe) explains that if you are 52 years old or more and you have exhausted unemployment benefit, there is a subsidy of which you can benefit. This is aimed at those workers who have completely exhausted the unemployment benefit- that can be charged for a maximum of 720 days-, who cannot benefit from an early retirement and also do not have income that allow them to live with dignity.
However, they exist a series of requirements to access said subsidy. Among the most important was the Having contributed by unemployment a minimum of 6 years throughout his working life. But this requirement was very restrictive especially for some more vulnerable groups.
Home employees can already access subsidy for over 52 years
Due to the aforementioned requirement, Home employees or housewives could not access said subsidy In no way not to be listed the established period. The problem is not until October 1, 2022 in which the right to these employees was recognized with retroactive effect.
This means that The employees to be able to collect said subsidy had to wait until 2028 At least, since they did not reach the established 6 years.
However, this situation has been resolved by the Superior Court of Justice of Navarra that He endorsed the problem in favor of the employee in his lawsuit with the SEPE.
The court has computed as quoted the previous periods to Royal Decree-Law 16/2022 in which the worker was in the special regime of household employees.
The household employee appeared in the special regime of household employees intermittently in three periods since 1985. According to the court, this situation in which the price time was not computed to the employees denying their subsidy until 2028 It was a form of indirect discrimination.
Now, this sentence Open the door for other housewives over 52 to access said subsidysomething that until now did not happen for only one of the established requirements.
Requirements to obtain the subsidy for over 52 years
A person may be beneficiary of this subsidy as long as it meets the following requirements:
- Have 52 years or more on the date on which the requirements to access the subsidy are met. However, this requirement is not essential if a legal unemployment situation and at least 90 days of contribution were accredited. In this case, “you can request access to this subsidy from the date you meet this age, provided that on the date of submitting the application you meet the requirement of income lack, and you have remained registered or registered uninterruptedly as a employment of employment in public employment services from the date of exhaustion of the contributory benefit or the legal situation of unemployment, until the date of the application of the subsid SEPE.
- Accredit Legal Unemployment Situation having quoted at least 90 days.
- Be in total unemployment or part -time working.
- Be registered as a job applicant and have signed the activity agreement on the date of recognition of law ..
- Fulfill the activity commitment, which is included in the application for the subsidy
- Lack of income of any nature that in monthly computing are over 75% of the SMI -Excruid the proportional part of two extraordinary payments-. If you did not meet this requirement on the date of the causative event, you can access the subsidy if it meets and accredits it within a year since then.
- Prove that, on the date of the corresponding causative fact, meets all the requirementsexcept for age, to access retirement (that is, have quoted at least 15 years, of which 2 years must be within the last 15).
- Have container a minimum of 6 years throughout your working life.