Arbetslös i danmark

However, we recommend that you contact the authorities in your home country for more guidance, as there can also be national rules to follow. Det kan arbejdsgiverne i hvert fald tro. You need to do this so that the unemployment insurance fund and the job centre can assess the quality of your job search and advise you on how you may improve your job search.

The unemployment insurance fund may require you to upload copies of all your applications for a certain period.

This agreement also includes provisions on aggregation of periods, however, in a limited form, as it does not regulate rights when moving internally between EU Member States.

This means:

• If you are a UK citizen with residence in Denmark, or a Danish citizen with residence in UK, you are entitled to aggregate periods from UK and/or Denmark, even though you moved after 1 January 2021.
• If you are a UK citizen with residence in Denmark, and you did not have a legal right to stay in Denmark prior to 1 January 2021, you are not entitled to aggregate periods from another EU/EEA country.

  If the unemployment insurance fund agrees with your appeal, you will be informed by them directly. This amounts to a maximum of:

  • DKK 13,100 (2025) DKK 12,645 (2024) per month as full-time insured.
  • DKK 8,733 (2025) DKK 8,430 (2024) per month as part-time insured.

  If you are under 25 years old

  As a person under 25, you will in some cases get 50 per cent, or 49.17 per cent, of the highest unemployment benefit rate.

  You have to meet the following conditions:

  • You have been registered with the job centre as full-time unemployed for at least 4 weeks before the planned departure date.
  • You are available for the labour market on your departure date. Nummer to på listen er Holland, hvor 16 procent af de arbejdsløse var ramt af langtidsledighed.

    Til sammenligning var det 19 procent af de arbejdsløse i Norge, 25 procent af de arbejdsløse i Sverige og 29 procent af de arbejdsløse i Tyskland, der var langtidsledige.

    ”Gode konjunkturer betyder rigtig meget, men den danske model viser også sit værd.

    In other words, you are entitled to benefits for 1,924 hours of the benefits in total within a 2-year period. 

    If you do not use all the hours within the period of 3 years, the remaining hours for which you are entitled to unemployment benefits will lapse.

    It is possible to extend the period of 3 years, for example if you have been ill or on maternity leave.

    It is also possible to extend the unemployment benefit period of 2 years, that is, the 3,848 hours, based on wage hours paid to you since you started receiving unemployment benefits.

    Each working hour extends your unemployment benefit period by 2 hours.

    You must use the extra unemployment benefit hours within a period 3 times the number of hours you have worked. For example, if you have worked 100 hours before your ordinary unemployment benefit period of 2 years has expired, it entitles you to unemployment benefits for a further 200 hours.

    You can see the deadline in your document PD U2 issued by your Danish unemployment insurance fund.

    If you do not return to Denmark and register with your local job centre before the deadline expires, you will lose your right to unemployment benefits. Together with the unemployment fund, you will now start a personalised plan, ‘My Plan’, and together draw up individual ‘Job search requirements’ for you.

    Aldersgruppen er 20-64 år.

    Andel arbejdsløse, der er langtidsledige (2024)

    1 Danmark – 14 pct.

    2 Holland – 16 pct.

    3 Norge – 19 pct.

    4 Malta – 22 pct.

    5 Østrig – 23 pct.

    6 Finland – 24 pct.

    7 Frankrig – 24 pct.

    8 Luxembourg – 24 pct.

    9 Irland – 25 pct.

    10 Sverige – 25 pct.

    11 Estland – 27 pct.

    12 Polen – 27 pct.

    13 Tyskland – 29 pct.

    14 Cypern – 29 pct.

    15 Tjekkiet – 30 pct.

    16 Letland – 31 pct.

    17 Litauen – 31 pct.

    18 Schweiz – 33 pct.

    19 Spanien – 35 pct.

    20 Ungarn – 35 pct.

    21 Slovenien – 36 pct.

    22 Rumænien – 38 pct.

    23 Portugal – 38 pct.

    24 Belgien – 39 pct.

    25 Kroatien – 40 pct.

    26 Italien – 52 pct.

    27 Bulgarien – 53 pct.

    28 Grækenland – 55 pct.

    29 Slovakiet – 67 pct.

    Kilde: AE pba.

    Du kan sedan överföra intjänade tid (kvalifikationstid) från din danska a-kasse till en av 28 a-kassor i Sverige som därefter hanterar utbetalningen av ersättning. If you get a job, you can no longer receive Danish unemployment benefits.

    If you do not find work in the other EU/EEA country, it is important that you are back in Denmark and register with your local job centre before the deadline of 3 months expires.

    21,0 procent af de ledige mellem 60-64 år er langtidsledige, mens det gælder for 15,9 procent af de 20-59-årige.

  • Danmark har den laveste langtidsledighed i Europa. If your appeal is upheld, any subsequent payment of unemployment benefits will be subject to the condition that you have met the other conditions for entitlement to unemployment benefits throughout the period for which you are claiming unemployment benefits.

    If you want to appeal the CKA decision, you must within 4 weeks send the appeal to the CKA.

    If the CKA agrees with your appeal, you will be informed by them directly. These are private associations. This means, among other things, that you must apply for and be able to take over work with the notice of a day. However, in order to receive the unemployment benefits, you must register with the employment service, in the country you are traveling to, no later than 7 days after the start date stated in document PD U2.

    Otherwise, you will only receive unemployment benefits from the day you register with the employment service in the other EU/EEA country.

    During the period you receive Danish unemployment benefits in another EU/EEA country, you must be available for the labour market in the country in which you search for a job.

    This amounts to a maximum of:

    • DKK 25,070 (2025) DKK 24,199 (2024) per month for full-time insured persons.
    • DKK 16,713 (2025) DKK 16,133 (2024) per month for part-time insured persons.

    In order to be entitled to this increased benefit rate, you must:

    • have been an uninterrupted member of an unemployment fund for at least 4 years prior to being placed in an unemployment benefit period
    • have had at least DKK 547,008 (2025) DKK 526,464 (2024) as full-time insured, up to a maximum of DKK 22,792 (2025) DKK 21,936 (2024) per month and DKK 364,680 (2025) DKK 329,232 (2024) as part-time insured, up to a maximum of DKK 15,195 (2025) 14,624 (2024) per month within the last 3 years if you are placed in an unemployment benefit period on the basis of income
    • have had at least 3,848 paid hours as full-time insured and 3,120 hours as part-time insured if you are placed in an unemployment benefit period on the basis of paid hours
    • have had an unemployment benefit rate calculated which exceeds 100 per cent of the maximum amount of unemployment benefits.

    You can receive the increased rate for up to 481 hours as full-time insured and 390 hours as part-time insured.

    If you are newly-qualified or a conscript

    As a newly-qualified person or a conscript with responsibility for dependants, you can get 82 per cent of the maximum unemployment benefit on a full-time or part-time insurance basis.

    The ‘Job search requirements’ form the basis for the unemployment insurance fund's assessment of your availability for the labour market while you receive unemployment benefits.

    Register your job search activities

    You must document your job search by continuously registering your job search activities and uploading applications in the job log on Jobnet or in the unemployment insurance fund's own digital job log, if applicable.

    You need to apply for and register the number of jobs that your unemployment insurance fund has required.

    However, if you are a recent graduate, you are entitled to receive unemployment benefits for a total of 1 year within a period of 2 years.

  • You are entitled to unemployment benefits on the departure date.
  • You have applied for a PD U2 certificate from your unemployment insurance fund before your departure.
  • You do not depart from Denmark before the date stated in your PD U2 certificate.