Applications for unemployment benefits double in the third wave. The number of requests for benefits in the province of Castellón registered in the month of December 2020 amounted to 15,024, which represents 99% more than the same month of the previous year, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy.
For its part, the tall ones processed in the counties of Castellón rose a 13.667 compared to 7,243 in December 2019, so the rebound has been 89%.
The sharp increase in the number of applications has caused a delay in the average recognition period it means. Thus, the average term was 5.47 days in December 2020, while in the same period of 2019 it was 0.97 days, so the waiting time has practically been multiplied by five , with an interannual growth rate of 464%, as can be seen from the Ministry’s data.
The beneficiaries of existing benefits at the end of the month in the province of Castellón were 23,404, with an increase over the same month of the previous year of 6.4%. About the payroll of unemployment benefits, December 2020 total expenses amounted to 23.6 million of euros in the province of Castellón, which represents a increase of 19.6% rExpect to the same month of the previous year, when the expense was 19.7 million euros.
Regarding the average monthly expenditure per beneficiary of benefits in the province of Castellón in the month of December 2020, the gross average amount was 832.1 euros, which represents a decrease of 0.57% in percentage terms and 4.8 euros in absolute terms compared to the same month of 2019.
The number of benefit recipients per foreign unemployment in December 2020 it was 5,325 people in the province, which represents 11.4% more than the same month of the previous year. In relation to the total number of beneficiaries of unemployment benefits, foreign beneficiaries represent 22.7%.
It should be remembered that these December data published this month by the Ministry they still don’t show the effects of the third wave in full. In fact, these are the statistics for December, the month in which the new restrictions had not yet been adopted by the Generalitat to try to contain the third wave of the Covid pandemic. In fact, these measures, which include the total closure of the hotel shop, have caused the unemployment of the month of January has increased by more than 1,300 people, more than 4,200 jobs have been destroyed and ERTEs now affect a total of 4,456 workers, 736 more than at the end of December. Right now, There are 44,535 unemployed in Castellón, 5,583 more than a year ago, which represents an increase of 14.33% in the interannual rate.
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