If you qualify for adjusted earnings-related daily allowance, then any income paid during your application period will affect how much daily allowance you will be paid. Of the work or entrepreneurship income you are paid during the application period, 50 % will be subtracted from the full amount of your daily allowance.
The adjustment period is monthly or every 4 calendar weeks (Mon-Sun). Which period is used is determined by your pay cycle at work or your application period.
You must inform the Fund of any hours worked or any income you receive during the application period.
| An example of a monthly adjustment period |
| Your full daily allowance is 52 €/day. You have worked occasionally, and you will be paid 500 € during this application period for the work you have done. Half of the income, so 500 € / 2 = 250 € will reduce your daily allowance when calculating the amount of your adjusted daily allowance. 250 € is divided by the average number of weekdays in a month (21,5) to get the amount your daily allowance will be reduced (11,63 €/day). Your daily allowance will be 52 € – 11,63 € = 40,37 €/day for every weekday of the month in question. |
| An example of an adjustment period every 4 calendar weeks |
| Your full daily allowance is 52 €/day. You have worked occasionally, and you will be paid 500 € during this application period for the work you have done. Half of the income, so 500 € / 2 = 250 € will reduce your daily allowance when calculating the amount of your adjusted daily allowance. 250 € is divided by the number of weekdays (20) in the adjustment period to get the amount your daily allowance will be reduced (12,50 €/day). Your daily allowance will be 52 € – 12,50 € = 39,50 €/day for every weekday of the application period. |
The adjusted daily allowance for the application period and the income paid during the application period together can be at most as much as the income used to calculate your daily allowance (the so-called 100 % rule). If the sum is more than the income your daily allowance is based on, no daily allowance can be paid that application period. The absolute maximum amount of adjusted earnings-related daily allowance can be calculated by subtracting the income paid during the application period from the income your daily allowance is based on. In addition to the 100 % rule described above, no daily allowance will be paid if the amount to be paid is less than 50 % of the amount of basic unemployment allowance.
Adjusted daily allowance is paid for every day (5 days/calendar week) of the application period except for days when there is no right to daily allowance.
Adjusted daily allowance generally uses up the 300/400/500 day maximum payment period slower than otherwise. This is because adjusted daily allowance days are converted into full days when calculating how many days of the maximum payment period they have used up. However, if adjusted daily allowance includes an increased earnings-related component, then every day you are paid adjusted daily allowance will use up one day of the maximum payment period, regardless of what the amount of the paid adjusted daily allowance is.
You can use the allowance calculator to experiment with what effect different amounts of income have on the amount of adjusted daily allowance. Note that the results of the allowance calculator are only an estimate. The precise amount of daily allowance will be determined by the Fund’s decision.