Part-time work and supplementary unemployment benefits

When you receive supplementary unemployment benefits, the same rules for termination apply as when you have a full-time job. This means that you must have a valid reason for your termination to avoid quarantine in the unemployment benefit system.

If you quit your job when your right to supplementary unemployment benefit expires and for up to 26 weeks afterwards, you will not be quarantined. However, you cannot receive supplementary unemployment benefit during the 26 weeks.

If this applies to your situation, you will receive a letter from Min A-kasse with information.

If you have used up the 30 weeks of supplementary unemployment benefit, you have the option to extend your benefit entitlement by an additional four weeks for every month of full-time work, corresponding to more than 146 hours. You can do this three times in total.

To extend your right to supplementary unemployment benefits, you must have been reported:

• more than 146 hours of work in a month.
• more than 34 hours of work each week for four weeks.
• more than 68 hours of work in two 14-day periods.

If you are self-employed (self-employed secondary employment) for at least a full month without receiving unemployment benefits, you can extend your unemployment benefit entitlement by four weeks. You can do this three times. 

The two options above can be combined. However, you can never extend your right to supplementary unemployment benefit by more than 12 weeks.

You are entitled to receive supplementary unemployment benefits for a limited period of time. You can receive supplementary unemployment benefit for a total of 30 weeks within 104 weeks. After that, the right to supplementary unemployment benefit lapses, but you can continuously earn a new right. You earn a new entitlement to supplementary unemployment benefit when you have been reported within 12 consecutive months:

Full-time insured

• More than 146 hours per month in 6 monthly reports as a full-time insured. More than 118 hours per month in 6 monthly reports as part-time insured.
• More than 34 hours each week in 26 weekly reports as a full-time insured. More than 27 hours each week in 26 weekly reports as part-time insured.
• More than 68 hours in 13 14-day reports as a full-time insured. More than 54 hours in 13 14-day reports as part-time insured

The unemployment benefit card will show the information we already know, including information about vacation, illness and paid work if you receive a fixed salary.

If you are paid a fee, we will convert to paid hours using the statutory conversion rate if we consider the employment to be paid work.

If you have no changes to the information, just approve the card.

However, if you have changes, you need to correct payroll hours for the days where you have had changes in your working hours. Remember to report all work, regardless of the time of day you performed it. Income must be reported gross per working day. However, it is not necessary to correct the individual days if the monthly hours are correct and you have worked in all weeks.

Read more about how to fill out the unemployment benefit card correctly.

Keep track of the weeks

The following weeks where you have worked reduced hours are included when calculating your entitlement to the 30 weeks, provided you receive unemployment benefits for the calendar month:

• weeks in which you start or finish a job.
• weeks where the benefit card is occupied by less than 37 hours (30 hours for part-time insured) due to both work and other occupations, for example due to illness.
• weeks during which you are working with a public salary subsidy.
• A company where you receive compensation for wages for work performed. This could be a company that has gone bankrupt and where you have not been paid for work performed, but receive compensation from the Employees' Guarantee Fund.
• weeks where you are laid off during a notice period and therefore receive salary during the notice period.
• Weeks where you work a rotating or on-call schedule (all weeks).
• weeks in which you are self-employed, regardless of whether deductions have been made during the week for hours worked in the business.

If you are on supplementary unemployment benefit and are unsure how many weeks you have left, write to us.