Definition: Other cash benefits (Unemployment Function)

Category: ESSPROS Manual

Other financial assistance, particularly payments to the long-term unemployed, such as start-up incentives in the form of payment of unemployment benefit.

This definition is identical in versions 1996, 2008 and 2011 of the Manual 

This definition is also used in the following document: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1980/2003 of 21 October 2003 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards definitions and updated definitions. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-RA-11-014-EN.pdf Eurostat, "ESSPROS Manual 2008"Eurostat, "ESSPROS Manual 1996"Regulation (EC) No 1980/2003 (EU-SILC)