The Basque Country and the Spanish Government have signed an agreement for the transfer of unemployment benefit
It will take place in the Joint Transfer Commission before the end of the year and the Basque Government will take over the offices and staff of the SEPE.
The Basque Government and the Spanish Government have agreed to transfer to the Basque Country the competences for the management of unemployment benefit and unemployment benefit. The agreement was reached today at a meeting in Madrid between the Councillor for Governance, Digital Administration and Self-Government, María Ubarretxena, and the Secretary of State for Labour and Social Economy, Joaquín Pérez Rey.
The transfer will take place in the Joint Transfer Commission to be held before the end of the year, in compliance with the provisions of the Gernika Statute, with the Basque Country taking over the 30 offices and 534 workers of the State Employment Service (SEPE), which, according to data from 2024, will benefit 51,000 persons and the Basque Government will manage 822 million euros per year.
Counsellor Maria Ubarretxena stresses the importance of the agreement: "Today is a great day for the Basque Country. We close the circle: in addition to active policies, we will also take responsibility for passive employment policies, in compliance with the provisions of the Gernika Statute of 1979." She also explains that the transfer planned for July was delayed, but that the intensification of negotiating efforts has made it possible "to reach an agreement despite the difficulties."
Ubarretxena has announced that the Basque Government will submit to the Spanish Government at the beginning of October a proposal on the remaining competences to comply with the agreed timetable: "We will do everything necessary to comply fully with the Gernika Statute that the Basques adopted almost half a century ago."
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