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If you are gaining contributory unemployment subsidy, or the renta activa de inserción (RAI) and transferred abroad, the conditions for the provision will vary depending on the ground and the duration of your move.

If you are gaining contributory benefit or unemployment benefit, in the case of transfer of residence abroad to find or performing work, for international cooperation actions or professional development, it is mandatory to give notice prior to departure to the public employment service and State that this authorizes it. If the transfer takes less than twelve months, providing continuous suspension, if more than twelve months, is extinguished.

If you are seeing is the RAI, in the case of transfer of residence abroad to find or performing work, for professional improvement or for international cooperation actions, it is mandatory to so inform the public employment service Estatal before departure, and that this authorizes it. If the transfer takes less than six months of continuous, the provision is suspended and if more than six months, is extinguished.

If you do not have conveyed to the public service of the State Employment abroad, will be an offence which will lead to the beginning of a punitive procedure, the penalty is the extinction of law.

When leaving Spain was discontinued the provision, the allowance or the RAI, seeing you, and you are out of work, you can request the resumption of the benefit or subsidy or returning to the RAI.

You will receive these benefits from the day following your return to Spain, we always resumption or returning within 15 business days after that date and justifiques prove one of the reasons given.


If you are gaining contributory unemployment benefit or subsidy and transferred abroad for one year or more to work, find work, conduct studies to improve your professional qualification, or by international cooperation actions, the benefit or allowance is extinguished.

If you are gaining the renta activa de inserción (and you were relocated abroad for six months or more to work, find work, conduct studies to improve their professional qualifications, or for international cooperation activities, such income is extinguished.

If upon return to Spain you are out of work, you will not be entitled to receive the benefit being interrupted the marcharte abroad.

If you are french or spanish and you're coming back from a country outside the European Unionor to the european economic area, or Australia or Switzerland, you may have the right to allowance as a person returned emigrant. Or you may also request the renta activa de inserción, procedas.

If you are gaining contributory unemployment subsidy, or the renta activa de inserción (and you were relocated abroad for any reason, if the output is not greater than 15 calendar days, whether continuous or not, during each calendar year, the provision is always that you can meet the obligations set by law.

It is desirable that communicate to the public employment service authorities prior to departure.

The return from abroad, you must appear in the office of the first business day following your return.

If you are gaining contributory unemployment subsidy, or the renta activa de inserción (and you were relocated abroad for any reason, if the stay abroad is for a period continued or not, above 15 days and up 90 calendar days within a maximum period of each calendar year, benefits are put on hold.

Before such departure is mandatory prior notice to the public employment service state and that its consent to such an exit.

If by than 90 days and is not to work, find work, conduct studies to improve their professional qualifications, or by international cooperation actions, the provision or grant is extinguished.

If percibes benefits and has been registered or registered as a jobseeker for at least four weeks in Spain and you were relocated to seek employment to a country of the European Union, The European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, you can export the provision for three months, renewable for another three.

For this you must:

  • Seeking the authorization of displacement to the public employment service.
  • The document, or request 2 . You will facilitate a fact sheet on the issues of concern with regard to the period of residence in another country.
  • Register as a jobseeker in the country to which you were relocated, within seven days of the date of leave available to public employment services.

Payment of hazard pay continue to be undertaken using the same system that during your stay in Spain.

The persons who are nationals of countries outside the eu/eea or Switzerland can export the provision to seek employment in these (except to denmark, switzerland, iceland, norway and Liechtenstein), provided that justify the option of registering in its employment services and will develop a work in the country where you intend to move through the corresponding authorization of residence or work.

The persons who are nationals of countries outside the eu/eea or Switzerland, which met the requirements, you can export the unemployment benefits to the united kingdom, application of regulation EC 859 / 2003 allowing for a period of three months, without extension.

  • If you are french or spanish you and not worked in spain in the 6 years prior to your departure abroad, you could have the right to charge a allowance as person returned emigrantif you're coming back from a country outside the EU/EEAneither of Switzerland. Or you may also request the renta activa de inserción, procedas.
  • If you've worked in spain in the 6 years prior to your departure abroad and not you gained unemployment benefit for these contributions, you can request contributory unemployment benefit if reúnes 360 quoted days before your departure, or a subsidy if before you priced between marcharte 90 and 359 days.