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Sick on unemployment benefits

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What do you do if you fall ill while on unemployment benefits?

If you fall ill on unemployment benefits, you can receive unemployment benefits for the first 14 days of illness.

All that is required is that you are unemployed, registered as unemployed at the job center and entitled to unemployment benefits. The earliest you can receive sickness benefit is from the day we receive your sickness notification. 

How do you call in sick?

You must report sick to both the unemployment insurance fund and the job center from your first day of illness. You must report sick via jobnet.dk. If you are called in for an interview at the unemployment fund, remember to notify us directly. You can do this by calling us on +45 7012 3782.

When you are sick on unemployment benefits, you will be exempt from the requirement to be registered as a job seeker during the first 14 days of illness.

You must report to the unemployment insurance fund and jobnet.dk on your first healthy day.

If you are sick for more than 14 days, we must notify the municipality via virk.dk. You will then receive a notification letter from the municipality. If you want to apply for sickness benefit, the notification letter must be completed and sent to the municipality within 8 days from the date of the notification letter. If you do not apply for sickness benefit within the deadline, it may affect your entitlement to sickness benefit.

Sick on unemployment benefits

You are eligible for unemployment benefits during the first 14 days of illness if you are on the first day of sick leave:

  • Not in a permanent short-term employment relationship.
  • Not in an employment relationship with varying weekly hours.
  • Not covered by a rotation scheme.
  • Not working as a casual worker (day-to-day employee) when you fall ill.

If your employment is covered by one of the above points, you must report sick on the first day of sick leave to the job center and apply for sickness benefit from the municipality.

Notification letter from the municipality and deadline for applying for sickness benefits

Once the unemployment insurance fund has received your sickness notification, we electronically send a form to your municipality of residence with information about your name, social security number, level of insurance, unemployment benefit rate and first day of sickness.

You will then receive a notification letter from the municipality.

If you want to apply for sickness benefit, the notification letter must be completed and sent to the municipality within 8 days from the date of the notification letter.

If you do not apply for sickness benefit within the deadline, it may affect your entitlement to sickness benefit.

ATTENTION! If for some reason the municipality does not send you a notification letter, you must apply for sickness benefit from the municipality yourself no later than 3 weeks after the first day of sickness absence. Sickness benefit must be applied for on a form provided by the municipality. You must therefore ensure that you receive a notification letter from your municipality.

The municipality can ask for a medical certificate

The municipality may ask for a statement from your doctor as proof that you are ill. The municipality will pay for the medical certificate. When you are well again, you must notify us and the job center and at the same time submit the last sickness benefit specification to Min A-kasse. Please note that the municipality does not pay sickness benefit on public holidays.

When you get well

You are automatically deregistered from the job center when you are on sick leave. It is therefore important that you remember to re-register on jobnet.dk. When you register on jobnet.dk, you will automatically be registered as a job seeker again.