Incompatibility of contributory benefit and unemployment benefit

Your benefit will be incompatible with self-employment, even if you do not have to be included obligatorily in one of the Social Security schemes or in some mutuality of social security alternative to the Special Social Security Scheme for Self-Employed or Self-Employed Workers.

1. In general, the unemployment benefit and allowance you receive will be incompatible with Social Security’s economic contributory benefits, unless they were compatible with the work that gave rise to the unemployment benefit or allowance.

2. The unemployment benefit will be incompatible with someone else’s work, except when you do it part-time and ask for compatibility, in which case the amount of your benefit will be deducted, the part proportional to the time worked.
   If the compatibility is requested within fifteen working days after the date of the beginning of the employment relationship, it will be applied from that date. Otherwise, it will be applied from the date of the request, provided that it is present before twelve months have elapsed since the date of the beginning of the employment relationship.
   The deduction indicated in the previous paragraph will be made in addition to when you are receiving unemployment benefit as a result of the loss of a full-time or part-time job and obtain a new part-time job, when you have several part-time contracts and lose one of them.

3. If you access the unemployment benefit by maintaining one or more part-time contracts as well as if you are a beneficiary of it and you start a full-time or part-time employment relationship, the benefit can be compatibilized asEmployment Support Supplement.

Compatibility of contributory benefit and unemployment benefit

The benefit and the subsidy will be compatible with the perception of:

• Any kind of minimum income, social wages or similar social assistance grants that any Public Administration has granted you.
• With the receipt of non-contributory economic benefits of Social Security, except that of retirement.

In both of the above cases, the income will be taken into account if you are receiving the unemployment benefit, to determine that you meet the requirements for lack of your own income or required family responsibilities, if applicable.

• With the completion of your training practices, external academic practices included in professional training programs or on-the-job training programs.
  It will not count as income from you or any other member of your family unit the amount of the economic perceptions obtained by the assistance to the actions mentioned above.

• When this is established by an employment promotion programme for groups with difficulty in entering the labour market, you will be able to reconcile the receipt of the unemployment benefit pending receipt with self-employment, in which case the SEPE will be able to pay you the amount.

Compatibility of the contributory benefit

1. If you belong to a group with difficulty in entering the labour market, you can make the unemployment benefit payable compatible with self-employment when it is established by a programme to promote employment. In this case, the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) may pay you the monthly amount of the benefit in the amount and duration that are determined, not including the Social Security contribution.
2. If you are a beneficiary of a contributory unemployment benefit because you have completely and definitively ceased your work activity, and high causes as a self-employed person in any of the Social Security systems, you can make the monthly receipt of the benefit that corresponds to you compatible with self-employment, for a maximum period of time. 270 days or for the shorter period of time outstanding, provided that you request it from the SEPE within the period of 15 Days from the date of the start of the activity on your own account, in which case, you can make it compatible from the beginning of such activity. After that period of 15 Days You will not be able to accept this compatibility.

Notwithstanding the above, from the 1 of April 2025 You will be able to make your contribution compatible as Employment Support Supplementdepending on whether the benefit was born before or after that date.

Compatibility of unemployment benefit

If you access the unemployment benefit while maintaining one or more part-time contracts, as well as if you are a beneficiary of it and you start a full-time or part-time employment relationship, the benefit will be compatible ex officio as Employment Support Supplement.