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You can receive supplementary unemployment benefits if your business is a secondary occupation. If the business is your main occupation, we can be your financial safety net. With an unemployment insurance fund, you can receive unemployment benefits if, for any reason, you have to stop working as a self-employed person.

Once your business has ceased trading and been deregistered from public registers, you can receive unemployment benefits after three weeks, or after just one week if the business has gone bankrupt.

Read more about the difference between main employment and secondary employment.

Supplementary daily allowance as a self-employed person

You can receive supplementary unemployment benefits for 30 weeks within a period of two years (104 weeks). Please note that the weeks you receive unemployment benefits count towards the 30 weeks, regardless of whether you are employed by the company or not.

To be entitled to supplementary unemployment benefits as a self-employed person, you must meet a number of conditions:

  • You must be registered with jobnet.dk
  • You must be available for work.
  • You must be actively seeking employment and register your job search in your job log.
  • You must attend meetings and tenders.
  • You must send us your daily allowance card every month.
  • You must be able to take on a full-time job (37 hours per week) with one day's notice.

How to apply for supplementary unemployment benefits

Fill out the form ‘Information about my employment (AK320)’ in Self-service.

We will review your information and let you know whether you can receive supplementary unemployment benefits while running a business.

If you are unsure about the rules or need help, you are always welcome to contact us.

Go to Self-service.

Contact My Unemployment Insurance Fund.

How do I fill out my unemployment benefit card as a self-employed person?

On your daily allowance card, you must state how many hours and minutes you have spent on the business in the section "self-employed business" – even if the work has not generated any income. This applies to all work tasks, including outreach work, administrative work, and travel time. We will deduct the hours from your daily allowance.

It does not matter which day of the week or at what time of day you performed the work. You must record all working hours on your daily allowance card.

When does my entitlement to supplementary unemployment benefit end?

We count the weeks during which you receive daily benefits from us. All weeks count, regardless of whether you have had work in your company or not.

If it becomes relevant for you to extend your entitlement to supplementary unemployment benefits, we will notify you automatically.

Can I extend or re-earn my entitlement to supplementary unemployment benefits?

You can regain your entitlement to supplementary unemployment benefits. If you have not regained your entitlement to supplementary unemployment benefits, you have the option of having it extended.

Read about how you can regain your entitlement to supplementary unemployment benefits.

Read about how you can extend your supplementary unemployment benefits.

What if I can neither regain nor extend my entitlement to supplementary unemployment benefits?

If you do not have enough hours or income to extend or regain your entitlement to supplementary unemployment benefits, you must close, sell, lease, or withdraw from your business before you can receive unemployment benefits again. In order to receive unemployment benefits, the following conditions must be met:

  • that you have hours of entitlement to unemployment benefits remaining in your unemployment benefit period, and that your entitlement to unemployment benefits has not expired.

Are you considering giving up self-employment?

Read about unemployment benefits and find out what you need to be aware of.

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