This website has been translated from Danish to English by using artificial intelligence (AI).

We strive to ensure the accuracy of these translations, but we cannot guarantee they are 100% accurate as legal jargon and idioms are not easily translated.

By using this service, I acknowledge that there may be misunderstandings due to this inaccuracy. For accurate information, we recommend that you use the Danish version of the website. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to contact us.

Rethinking employment efforts results in new rules

We take over some of the job center's tasks

From 1 January 2024, we as an unemployment insurance fund will take over a number of the job center's tasks in the first three months of your unemployment.

This means that if you become unemployed after January 1, 2024 and have earned a new right to unemployment benefits, you will primarily have contact with us in the first 3 months. And in general, you will have fewer interviews in the first 6 months.

About contact with the unemployment fund

In addition to helping you find the right job, as we have always done, we will also act as your job center for the first 3 months. We can't grant you offers, but we can recommend a grant to the job center if there is a particular activity you would like to participate in.

You must attend 3 interviews with the unemployment fund within the first 3 months. The first one within 2 weeks, so you can get off to a good start. During the interviews, we will do everything we can to help you find a new job.

If we have not succeeded in finding you a new job within the first three months, the contact process will be transferred to your local job center.

How long is 3 months?

An easy question at first glance, but we count a little differently: The first 3 months of unemployment lasts until the end of the month in which you have used 410 hours of your unemployment benefits. (333 benefit hours for part-time insured).

In other words, we do not count calendar months, but only the hours you have been paid in unemployment benefits. The period does not necessarily last 3 calendar months, but depends on your course of unemployment, depending on what deductions are made from your unemployment benefits, e.g. due to working hours, vacation or other.

You will receive a letter from us when and if the job center will take over the interviews with you.

Exception 1 - ready for education:

If you are under 25 years old without a vocational education and without children, the job center will take over the interviews with you from the start. You will be notified of this by the unemployment fund.

You can read more about the special rules for young people under 25 here.

 

Exception 2 - previously unemployed:

If you became unemployed before the new rules come into force on January 1, 2024 and remain unemployed into the new year, continue with the interview process you are already in.

If you are deregistered as unemployed and re-registered in the new year, we will investigate whether you should be included in the new interview process in the unemployment fund.

 

The unemployment fund has formal responsibility for the first three months:

While you attend interviews in the unemployment fund for the first 3 months, we are responsible for, among other things:

  1. To register absence due to illness and vacation.
  2. To create and revise "My Plan"
  3. Ensuring you have a complete and up-to-date CV.
  4. To decide if you are eligible for a less intensive intervention.
  5. Registration and deregistration, including deregistration for lack of self-booking.
  6. Placing jobs

 

About job placement

Our job is to provide job vacancies to our own members.

This means that if an employer contacts us, we must check whether we have suitable candidates for the job among our unemployed members. If we don't, we make sure to post the job on jobnet.dk.

We look forward to helping you on your way to your new job.