Benefits

A multitude of benefits are provided within the scope of unemployment insurance. These include benefits that support people's integration into employment or training, as well as those that safeguard a person's livelihood in case of unemployment.

Benefits are designed primarily for those groups of people - employees and employers - who contribute to financing the unemployment insurance system. In order to receive benefits, the affected person must fulfill certain entitlement requirements.

Examples of the benefit spectrum provided by unemployment insurance. Benefits available to employees:

  • Counselling and placement support (job application costs, travel costs, placement certificate),
  • Measures for improving integration prospects,
  • Support for those taking on a new position, mobility assistance
    (transitional allowance; assistance with expenses for clothing and equipment, travel, commuting, setting up separate household near workplace, relocation),
  • Support for those taking up self-employment,
  • Vocational training support,
  • Advanced vocational training support, 
  • Vocational integration of disabled persons (vocational rehabilitation),
    (transitional allowance; training allowance; other benefits),
  • Wage compensation benefits (maintenance benefits),
    (unemployment benefit; unemployment benefit at having training, partial unemployment benefit; transitional allowance; insolvency benefit),
  • Promotion of year-round employment in the construction industry,
    (allowance for additional costs in winter; winter allowance subsidy; winter lost work allowance),
  • Payment recovery for older workers
  • short-time worker benefit
  • transfer payments benefit.