By withdrawing your benefits application, it will be considered as having never been submitted. You may withdraw your request as long as the procedure has not been completed, meaning before the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) approves, rejects or archives your application.

You may submit the withdrawal request through the following channels: 

• The SEPE electronic office, if you have a digital certificate, electronic ID or Cl@ve credentials with signature.
• Your Personal Area, using an electronic ID, permanent Cl@ve access or a PIN sent to your mobile phone.
• The benefits office where you submitted your application, by appointment (by phone or through the SEPE electronic office).

SEPE will issue a favourable decision once it has verified that the application has not yet been processed.

Any documentation submitted with the application will be returned together with the decision.

A renunciation of benefits may only be submitted once the application has been approved and will lead to the termination of the benefit.

Renunciation will not be accepted if:

• a procedure to suspend the benefit has been initiated,
• the benefit is subject to a court‑ordered withholding or seizure,
• there are outstanding undue payments with SEPE.