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Can I resume unemployment benefits between short-term contracts?

When you end a contract of less than one year and your contributory benefit has not been exhausted, you may request its resumption, which will entail the right to receive the benefit for the remaining period and with the bases and limits that correspond at the time. of the suspension.

The contributions made for your last job do not affect the duration of the benefit you have recognized, but they will be taken into account for access to a subsequent benefit.

Even if your previous unemployment benefit has not been extinguished due to the performance of employed work of a duration equal to or greater than twelve months, you can choose to resume that right or to request a new one, provided that after the initial recognition of that, You prove a new period of quoted occupation of at least 360 days, as well as compliance with the other required requirements.

If after the legal situation of unemployment you do not expressly request the recognition of a new right and choose to request the resumption of the suspended right, that right will be resumed and the periods of paid employment since its birth will be taken into account for the recognition of a right. later.

If after the legal situation of unemployment you expressly request the recognition of a new right, the new right requested will be recognized and the previous one will be considered extinguished for all purposes.