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If you during your unemployment or lay-off receive benefits from somewhere else than the fund, their effect on your unemployment allowance varies according to the benefit you receive.
The benefit you receive from somewhere else than the fund can reduce your allowance, prevent the payment of your allowance completely or have no effect on your allowance at all.
Listed below is the effect of the most common social benefits.
Unemployment allowance is reduced by the following benefits:
child home care allowance (also the benefit received by your spouse can affect your allowance)
flexible care allowance
partial rehabilitation allowance
partial disability pension
part-time pension.
These benefits reduce the unemployment allowance by their full amount.
When calculation the daily deduction, the monthly amount of the benefit is divided by 21,5.
Benefits that prevent the payment of unemployment allowance completely, are
sickness allowance and partial sickness allowance
maternity, paternity and parental allowances
rehabilitation allowance and rehabilitation subsidy
family care allowance, if family care is considered to employ a person to such an extent that he or she cannot be available on the labour market
special care allowances.
Benefits that have no effect on unemployment allowance, are
child benefit
orphan’s pension
flexible partial old-age pension
housing supplement
family care allowance, if the carer can be available on the labour market despite the family care.