Unemployment insurance benefit
You have the right to receive unemployment insurance benefits if:
- you are registered as unemployed;
- your unemployment insurance period is at least 12 months during the 36 months before registration as unemployed;
- you are involuntarily unemployed.
You do not have the right to receive an unemployment insurance benefit if your last employment or service relationship was terminated:
- at the initiative of the employee or the official (except cancellation of employment contract by employee due to a fundamental breach of the employer's obligation or when an employer fails to provide an employee with work);
- through the employee’s or the official’s fault;
- by agreement of the parties.
The right to unemployment insurance benefit does not arise on the basis of temporary employment during the period of registration as unemployed set out in section 42 of the Labour Market Services and Benefits Act. You can read more about temporary employment while registered as unemployed HERE
You do not have the right to receive an unemployment insurance benefit if you have reached the pensionable age established on the basis of the State Pension Insurance Act or you have been granted early retirement pension or flexible old-age pension on the basis of the same Act.
