Worker has to return 8 thousand euros to the Spanish State. Labor Inspection noticed that something didn’t add up.
A worker in Valencia became “unemployed” and started receiving unemployment benefitafter having contributed to Spanish Social Security for 181 days.
Unemployment benefit was granted for 630 days; then it was subsequently extended and renewed successively.
“Detail”: the company does not exist. It was considered fictitious when there was an investigation by the Labor Inspectorate.
The Labor Inspection report verified that the worker obtained the subsidy through a fictitious registration in a company without any activity.
The inspectors looked, but the company was not located at any of the declared addresses. They never found the company.
Furthermore, the alleged company never presented invoices to the Tax Administration and had no contributions for social security arrears. AND there was no administrator or legal representatives.
The explains that the “workers” of this company only gave “vague and imprecise” information; and were unable to specify the location of the headquarters, explain the internal organization or provide the identities of other colleagues. Some even said that the business was run in bars, with no fixed location or verifiable economic activity.
It was a shell company created to simulate labor relations and, thus, allow undue access to public unemployment benefits.
Now, the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community has decided that the worker must return to the Spanish State the total amount of unemployment benefit: just over 8 thousand euros.
It was a “very serious infraction”. And the money is returned in full because it was also paid from a single fraudulent source.
