Unemployment benefit is intended to compensate for loss of earnings due to unemployment. If you receive other social benefits while you are unemployed, these benefits may have an impact on your daily allowance. Some benefits prevent you from receiving the daily allowance, others fully reduce the amount of the daily allowance and others have no effect on the benefits paid by the cash office.
The benefits that prevent you from receiving the daily allowance include several pensions, sickness or partial sickness allowance, parental allowance or rehabilitation allowance.
Benefits that reduce the earnings-related daily allowance include partial disabilty pensions or pensions under the State Pensions Act that are paid on the basis of a lower retirement age than the normal retirement age.
A partial early retirement pension does not prevent or reduce the amount of unemployment benefit.
Childcare allowance for caring for a child under 3 years old is a deductible benefit, which is taken into account on a family-by-family basis. This means that the childcare allowance received by the spouse is also deducted from the earnings-related allowance, unless the spouse is caring for the child and is therefore not in the labour market.
Read more about the impact of social benefits.