The contributory unemployment benefit, better known as the ‘unemployment’, is the best-known aid of all those managed by the Public State Employment Service (SEPE), given that it is the highest amount because it demands higher contribution requirements from its beneficiaries. than the rest.
Collecting unemployment is considered a kind of security cushion that supports the citizen financially when they have lost their job. It is not the same to be laid off by a company without the necessary contributions to collect unemployment because the money received with a subsidy is significantly less.
For this reason, all the people who, in a legal situation of unemployment, request the SEPE to collect unemployment have a great concern in mind: When will they know if the body grants them the benefit? or if, on the contrary, it is denied for whatever reason.
The time that elapses until then is a period of uncertainty because the worker runs out of financial resources at that time and depends on the granting of unemployment to have a guaranteed source of income. And, although these periods can be very long for the citizen, the SEPE is obliged by law not to delay them excessively.
As explained by the SEPE in his web pagethe body is required to make a decision on citizen’s peer petition within 15 days of receipt of the requestprovided that the applicant is not required to provide additional information.
Once that decision has been made, the SEPE has another term, this time 10 days, to notify the citizen of that resolution. The time begins to count “from the date on which said resolution was issued”.
In which cases SEPE does not respond to your unemployment request
In the event that within a period of three months Since the application was submitted, the applicant has not received any communication from the SEPE, this will be bad news for the citizen, since the application will be deemed denied due to the existence of administrative silence by SEPE.
In these cases, from the existence of this administrative silence, the citizen may claim the decision of the SEPE through the courts and appeal the denial of unemployment payment.
