As you receive daily allowance, the Fund tracks the accumulation of your new employment requirement. Beginning 2.9.2024 the employment requirement is accumulated based on the wages you are paid during the calendar month:
- A month during which you have been paid at least 930 euros wage income accumulates one employment requirement month.
- A month during which you have been paid 465,00-929,99 euros wage income accumulates half an employment requirement month.
There are some exceptions regarding the accumulation of the employment requirement, such as pay-subsidised work. Read more about the accumulation of the employment requirement.
Once you have accumulated a new set of 12 employment requirement months after the last time your earnings-related allowance was calculated and within the 28-month review period, then you will have fulfilled the employment requirement again. When you fulfill the employment requirement again, the amount of your daily allowance will be calculated again, and you will be set a waiting period before daily allowance can be paid. The maximum payment period counter will be restarted even if you have not been paid for the full duration of the maximum payment period (300/400/500 days) yet.
When the amount of your daily allowance is recalculated, the recalculation is done based on your income from the new months that have fulfilled the employment requirement. The full amount of your new daily allowance will be at least 80 % of your previous daily allowance as long as your previous maximum payment period was not full yet. If you have received earnings-related daily allowance for the full 300/400/500-day maximum payment period, this 80 % rule does not concern you. You will receive a decision about the new amount of your daily allowance and the new waiting period when the Unemployment Fund pays your daily allowance for the first time after your new waiting period.