There have been consistently more recipients of unemployment benefits than of income support in Germany. In February 2025, around 3.97 million people received unemployment benefits, compared to 1.46 million people who received income support.

Romania Unemployment: Registered: Recipients of Unemployment Benefits (UB) data was reported at 72,917.000 Person in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 90,111.000 Person for 2016. Romania Unemployment: Registered: Recipients of Unemployment Benefits (UB) data is updated yearly, averaging 225,381.000 Person from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2017, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 602,957.000 Person in 1992 and a record low of 72,917.000 Person in 2017. Romania Unemployment: Registered: Recipients of Unemployment Benefits (UB) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Romania – Table RO.G016: Unemployment.

In 2022, short of 55,000 people received unemployment benefits in Denmark, which was the lowest during the period under consideration. It reached a record in 2020 following the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, which impacted unemployment across the country.

In April 2023, around 671.6 thousand people received unemployment benefits in South Korea, which is an increase from recent months. The unemployment rate peaked in 2020 when the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the economy, but now it is lower than the pre-pandemic level.

This dataset contains Iowa unemployment insurance benefit payments, weeks compensated, and number of benefit recipients by county. County data is based on the recipient’s place of residence. (2000 to date)

Statistics of the number of initial approvals for unemployment benefits under employment insurance

Unemployment benefits are paid to jobseekers in the long term. Jobseekers have until the end of the update (15th day of month M+ 1) to declare their situation on month M. If the job seeker meets the conditions, the payment for month M is made after the job seeker has updated his situation for month M and, at the earliest, on the 1st working day of month M+ 1. In addition, a number of information (admission decisions, reduced activity, sickness, training, etc.), which have consequences for the payment of an unemployment benefit, may not be known at the time when the job seeker updates his situation for month M due to the deadlines for producing and submitting supporting documents. The number of jobseekers compensated at the end of a given month is therefore known exhaustively only with a certain period of time. For this reason, the number of recipients at the end of the month is considered definitive when it is established with 6 months of decline for that month. Production of monthly data However, the final number of awardees compensated for month M can be correctly estimated from the number of recipients actually paid, before the discount closure in M+ 1. The data processing times lead to the availability of this data at the end of month M+ 2. This estimate is obtained by weighting the observed number of allocates by a passing coefficient corresponding to the gain of information between 1 and 6 months of decline. These coefficients are calculated once a year at the beginning of the year, for the publication of the data for the month of January. They are established for each type of allocation (ARE, AREF, ASS, CSP, RFF, RFPE) on the basis of data from the previous year drawn up with different setbacks. The data thus estimated with a month of decline have a provisional status. Each month, at the end of month M, two statistics are published: — an estimate by detailed allowances of the number of persons compensated at the end of the month M-2 (provisional data); — the number of persons compensated at the end of the month M-7, by detailed allowances (so-called ‘definitive’ data). The data are therefore made definitive monthly with a decline of 6 months. The number of staff is calculated from the FNA (National Recipient File). Published data are seasonally adjusted. CVS coefficients are re-estimated once a year, at the beginning of the year, by major type of allocation (ARE, AREF, Solidarity, RSP, CSP) and for metropolitan France and France as a whole. Compared to old estimation methods, this is characterised by: — the removal of the estimate without regression; the information published each month M henceforth covers the number of jobseekers compensated by Pôle emploi at the end of the month M-2 (and no longer at the end of months M-1); — the definitive status with 6 months of decline (and no longer 9 months as before); — the final status is published in flux, as soon as the data with 6 months of decline are known (and not once a year in year A-2). The FNA The FNA is a historical database of relational data consisting of elements related to compensation and the various aid granted to jobseekers. It allows longitudinal analyses by tracking cohorts of individuals, compiling descriptive statistics, forecasting, and performing simulations in impact studies related to regulatory or operational changes. The FNA is a major source of information for various statistical productions (summary notes, DRE, rates & salaries, surveys...). This statistical database records the history of all persons registered as jobseekers and all beneficiaries of an allowance paid or aid granted by the Employment Centre (formerly Assédic/Anpe) since 1993. All periods of compensation shall be retained for each recipient or beneficiary of aid. The file contains the individual information on the beneficiaries, the constituent elements of the rights available to the various compensation schemes and/or the aid granted, the data on the last job lost and the characteristics of the training taken. The results for the periods compensated for month M are thus known, at the latest, at the end of month M+ 1. However, a certain setback is needed in order to know, in a comprehensive way, the compensated population at any given time. Indeed, every month, the file continues to grow rich over past periods. It takes a setback of about six months to achieve completeness due to delays in file processing or late filing of grant applications. The FNA is fed monthly from operational applications. An individual is present in the FNA if he or she is a job seeker registered with Pôleemploi or if he receives or has received an allowance or assistance.

This filtered view contains Iowa unemployment insurance benefit payments, weeks compensated, and number of benefit recipients by county for the last month reported. County data is based on the recipient’s place of residence.

Benefits Paid: Unemployment benefits paid to individuals residing in the county.

Weeks Compensated: The number of weeks claimed by recipients residing in county for which UI benefits are paid. Weeks compensated for partial unemployment are included.

Recipients: The number of claimants residing in the county receiving at least one UI benefit payment during the month. The recipients column cannot be summed over multiple time periods.

First Payments: The number of claimants residing in the county receiving their the first payment in a benefit year for a week of unemployment claimed under the state UI program.

Final Payments: Number of claimants residing in the county drawing the final payment of their original entitlement of UI (exhaustees).

Analysis of ‘Recorded unemployment, January 2021 ’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/e0526164-80a3-498e-bd03-5f4e9e7123e6 on 18 January 2022.

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ANOFM calculates and publishes statistical indicators on registered unemployment, as required by the law. Registered unemployed persons represent both the unemployed paid (unemployed jobseekers with work experience benefits and SOMERI recipients of unemployment benefits without work experience/education graduates) as well as the unemployed (without receiving unemployment benefits) and are squeezed on the basis of data from the primary documents and records in the database of territorial employment agencies. Is the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate recorded is determined as the ratio between the number of unemployed persons registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (paid and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the active civilian population. The civilian active population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the civilian and registered unemployed population. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by means of the balance of labour at country, development region and county level. The rate of summons is calculated with the population of civil activity on 1 January 2017. The total number of registered SOMERI is structured on: Gender (women, Barbate), Type of compensation (indemnities, non-indemnities); Level of education (without education, primary education, secondary education, upper secondary education, postgraduate education, professional education/arts and trades, university education); Age groups (under 25, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-55 years, over 55 years). Average residency (urban, rural).The ANOFM calculates and publishes statistics on registered unemployment in accordance with the legal provisions. Registered unemployed persons represent both the unemployed paid (unemployed jobseekers with work experience benefits and SOMERI recipients of unemployment benefits without work experience/education graduates) as well as the unemployed (without receiving unemployment benefits) and are squeezed on the basis of data from the primary documents and records in the database of territorial employment agencies. Is the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate recorded is determined as the ratio between the number of unemployed persons registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (paid and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the active civilian population. The civilian active population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the civilian and registered unemployed population. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by means of the balance of labour at country, development region and county level. The rate of summons is calculated with the population of civil activity on 1 January 2017. The total number of registered SOMERI is structured on: Gender (women, Barbate), Type of compensation (indemnities, non-indemnities); Level of education (without education, primary education, secondary education, upper secondary education, postgraduate education, professional education/arts and trades, university education); Age groups (under 25, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-55 years, over 55 years). Residential environments (urban, rural).

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In February 2025, about 1.81 million employable recipients of citizens' benefit in Germany were unemployed. 240,000 recipients were unable to work and therefore received the benefit.

The data on expenditure under the various social protection schemes are drawn up according to the ESSPROS (European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics) Manual issued by Eurostat. Generally, the objectives of ESSPROS are to provide a comprehensive, realistic and coherent description of social protection which: (i) covers social benefits and their financing; (ii) is geared towards international comparability; and (iii) is completely harmonised with other statistics, particularly the National Accounts, in its main concepts. The Unemployment function consists of the following benefits: Special Unemployment Benefit, Unemployment Benefit, Social Assistance Board, Subsidiary Unemployment Assistance, Unemployment Assistance and Unemployment Assistance Tapering. Spatial ESSPROS data is represented per 1000 population. The data source used to compile the beneficiaries data is the System for the Administration of Social Benefits (SABS) database held by the Department of Social Security. Beneficiaries are grouped according to their ID card number. If a person received a particular benefit more than once in a calendar year, the records show one beneficiary. Beneficiaries obtaining more than one benefit under the same function are counted once. Beneficiaries living abroad are not included in the data.

Analysis of ‘Registered unemployment — April 2021 ’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/6b3d7d5f-498b-4df9-8fe4-79126c9d19a3 on 17 January 2022.

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ANOFM calculates and publishes statistical indicators on registered unemployment, as required by the law. Registered unemployed persons represent both the unemployed paid (unemployed jobseekers with work experience benefits and SOMERI recipients of unemployment benefits without work experience/education graduates) as well as the unemployed (without receiving unemployment benefits) and are squeezed on the basis of data from the primary documents and records in the database of territorial employment agencies. Is the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate recorded is determined as the ratio between the number of unemployed persons registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (paid and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the active civilian population. The civilian active population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the civilian and registered unemployed population. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by means of the balance of labour at country, development region and county level. The rate of summons is calculated with the population of civil activity on 1 January 2017. The total number of registered SOMERI is structured on: Gender (women, Barbate), Type of compensation (indemnities, non-indemnities); Level of education (without education, primary education, secondary education, upper secondary education, postgraduate education, professional education/arts and trades, university education); Age groups (under 25, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-55 years, over 55 years). Average residency (urban, rural).The ANOFM calculates and publishes statistics on registered unemployment in accordance with the legal provisions. Registered unemployed persons represent both the unemployed paid (unemployed jobseekers with work experience benefits and SOMERI recipients of unemployment benefits without work experience/education graduates) as well as the unemployed (without receiving unemployment benefits) and are squeezed on the basis of data from the primary documents and records in the database of territorial employment agencies. Is the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate recorded is determined as the ratio between the number of unemployed persons registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (paid and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the active civilian population. The civilian active population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the civilian and registered unemployed population. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by means of the balance of labour at country, development region and county level. The rate of summons is calculated with the population of civil activity on 1 January 2017. The total number of registered SOMERI is structured on: Gender (women, Barbate), Type of compensation (indemnities, non-indemnities); Level of education (without education, primary education, secondary education, upper secondary education, postgraduate education, professional education/arts and trades, university education); Age groups (under 25, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-55 years, over 55 years). Residential environments (urban, rural).

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Romania Unemployment: Registered: Female: Recipients of Unemployment Benefit (UB) data was reported at 14,688.000 Person in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 16,551.000 Person for 2016. Romania Unemployment: Registered: Female: Recipients of Unemployment Benefit (UB) data is updated yearly, averaging 60,638.000 Person from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2017, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 313,589.000 Person in 1992 and a record low of 14,688.000 Person in 2017. Romania Unemployment: Registered: Female: Recipients of Unemployment Benefit (UB) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Romania – Table RO.G016: Unemployment.

Dataset contains monthly counts, from 2001 to present, of individuals receiving regular unemployment insurance benefits, as well as the total amount of benefits received from New York State.

Data are provided for the state, 10 labor market regions, and counties. State counts can include everyone who receives benefits through New York State (including out-of-state residents) or only state residents who do so (excluding out-of-state residents).

Regular unemployment insurance includes: Unemployment Insurance (UI) Compensation, Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE), Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Service Members (UCX), Shared Work (SW) and Self Employment Assistance Program (SEAP). It excludes federal extensions and 599.2 training.

Decrease the average number of weeks that recipients receive state unemployment insurance benefits from 16.58 weeks in 2013 to 13.9 weeks by 2018.

This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefits with a basic income of equal size has minor employment effects at best. We examine an experiment in Finland in which 2,000 benefit recipients were randomized to receive a monthly basic income. The experiment lowered participation tax rates by 23pp for full-time employment. Despite the considerable increase in work incentives, days in employment remained statistically unchanged in the first year of the experiment. Moreover, even though all job search requirements were waived, participation in reemployment services remained high.

In the fiscal year 2023, around ******* persons in Japan received unemployment benefits per month on average. In the past decade, the average number of recipients was the highest in 2020.

This table provides annual data on the recipients of unemployment benefits by type of benefit. The information is disaggregated territorially at the level of the Canary Islands.

The "Expanded Jobseeker Payment and Youth Allowance - monthly profile" publication has introduced expanded reporting populations for income support recipients. As a result, the reporting population for Jobseeker Payment has changed to include recipients who are current but on zero rate of payment and those who are suspended from payment. The reporting population for Youth Allowance has changed to include those who are suspended from payment. The expanded report will replace the standard report after June 2023.

Additional data for JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance (other) recipients in the monthly profile includes:

• A monthly time series by rate of payment, providing details of recipients who are current on payment and in receipt of a full, part or zero rate of payment, and those who are suspended from payment (table 2)

• By work capacity status, showing those who have a partial capacity to work and those who have full capacity (table 7)

• By payment duration (table 8)

The “JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance recipients – monthly profile” is a monthly report, covering the Income Support payments of JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance (other). It also includes data on Youth Allowance (student and apprentice), Sickness Allowance and Bereavement Allowance. The report includes payment recipient numbers by demographics such as age, gender, state, earnings and Statistical Area Level 2.

Analysis of ‘Recorded unemployment, August 2020 ’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/966b0ea6-e3fd-4795-9089-35a5a4fb0a7f on 15 January 2022.

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ANOFM calculates and publishes statistical indicators on registered unemployment, as required by the law. Registered unemployed persons represent both the unemployed paid (unemployed jobseekers with work experience benefits and SOMERI recipients of unemployment benefits without work experience/education graduates) as well as the unemployed (without receiving unemployment benefits) and are squeezed on the basis of data from the primary documents and records in the database of territorial employment agencies. Is the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate recorded is determined as the ratio between the number of unemployed persons registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (paid and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the active civilian population. The civilian active population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the civilian and registered unemployed population. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by means of the balance of labour at country, development region and county level. The rate of summons is calculated with the population of civil activity on 1 January 2017. The total number of registered SOMERI is structured on: Gender (women, Barbate), Type of compensation (indemnities, non-indemnities); Level of education (without education, primary education, secondary education, upper secondary education, postgraduate education, professional education/arts and trades, university education); Age groups (under 25, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-55 years, over 55 years). Average residency (urban, rural).The ANOFM calculates and publishes statistics on registered unemployment in accordance with the legal provisions. Registered unemployed persons represent both the unemployed paid (unemployed jobseekers with work experience benefits and SOMERI recipients of unemployment benefits without work experience/education graduates) as well as the unemployed (without receiving unemployment benefits) and are squeezed on the basis of data from the primary documents and records in the database of territorial employment agencies. Is the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate recorded is determined as the ratio between the number of unemployed persons registered with the county and Bucharest employment agencies (paid and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the active civilian population. The civilian active population represents the potential labour supply and employment of the civilian and registered unemployed population. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by means of the balance of labour at country, development region and county level. The rate of summons is calculated with the population of civil activity on 1 January 2017. The total number of registered SOMERI is structured on: Gender (women, Barbate), Type of compensation (indemnities, non-indemnities); Level of education (without education, primary education, secondary education, upper secondary education, postgraduate education, professional education/arts and trades, university education); Age groups (under 25, 25-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-55 years, over 55 years). Residential environments (urban, rural).

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