and earned more than 20,000 DDK per month, please call us before you change your status. Because of your job, you may be able to receive an unemployment benefit rate as employee (lønmodtager). In that case you must change your status to lønmodtager instead of nyuddannet.

If you have not been a student member during your studies, the same 14-day rule applies to secure your rights to unemployment benefits as a graduate. In this case, you should apply for membership by completing the form Become a member of Akademikernes A-kasse. You can find a link to the form at the end of this guide. 

You will then be eligible to receive unemployment benefits 1 month + 1 day after you receive your last grade. At that time, you will need to register as unemployed at jobnet.dk. 

If you have a job on hand directly after you complete your studies, you must change your status to nyuddannet (graduate) as soon as possible after graduating and no later than 14 days after you receive your last grade. This way, you can apply for unemployment benefits if you are without a job later on. 

If you have a job on hand, and are starting later than right after you graduate, you will still need to change your status to nyuddannet (graduate) no later than 14 days after you receive your last grade. You will be able to apply for unemployment benefits in the period from when you graduate and until you start your job. This requires that you also register as unemployed at jobnet.dk the day after you receive your last grade and notify the us, when you will be starting your job. You do this on the self-service section of aka.dk (Mit AKA). Click on Jeg har fået job (I got a job). 

In order to receive unemployment benefits, you need to register as unemployed at jobnet.dk. 

If you have been a student member for 1-11 months, you have to register as unemployed exactly 1 month + 1 day after you receive your last grade, which is the day from which you are eligible to receive unemployment benefits. Please remember to change your status from student to graduate no later than 14 days after you received our last grade. 

If you have been a student member for 11-12 months when you graduate, you can receive unemployment benefits from the day where you have been a member for 1 year. Please remember to change your status from student to graduate no later than 14 days after you received our last grade. 

Maybe you plan on going on holiday after you graduate. In that case, you should register as unemployed on jobnet.dk after your holiday. When you register as unemployed on jobnet.dk you must be ready to take a job or to participate in meetings with us - and this is not the case if you are on holiday. 

If you choose to go on holiday a little later, you must report your holiday to the job center. 

If you are sick at the time when you receive your last grade, you should not register as unemployed on jobnet.dk, but contact your job center to register as sick, so that you can receive sickness benefits. 

If you become sick on the day you have registered as unemployed on jobnet.dk, you must register as sick on younet.dk. If you do so, you can receive unemployment benefits for the first 14 days. If you are sick for a longer period, you can receive sickness benefits from the municipality (kommune). 

You can continue with your part-time student job while unemployed. In this case, you can apply for supplementary unemployment benefits. You do this by indicating that you are continuing in a job when you fill out your application for benefits (ledighedserklæring).

You must be able to quit tomorrow

To receive supplementary benefits, you must be available to the labour market. This means you must be able to resign from your student job and start a job with more hours the next day.

If you have a notice period, you can meet the availability requirement by having your employer sign a release certificate (frigørelsesattest). A notice period means that you are required to stay at your job for a certain period, usually a month, after you resign.

The release certificate allows your employer to release you from your notice period, meaning you can stop working without notice if you are offered a job with more hours.

We must receive a signed release certificate from you no later than 5 weeks after you become eligible for unemployment benefits. Otherwise, we will only be able to pay benefits from the date we receive the release certificate.If Your Student Job Expires or You Are Laid OffIf Your Student Job Expires or You Are Laid Off

You can find a link to the release certificate at the bottom of this guide.

If your student job depends on your student status, or if your employer terminates your employment, you can apply for supplementary unemployment benefits and continue in your job until your employment ends. It’s important that you do not resign from your student job yourself, even if the job is conditional on your student status.

If you resign from your student job yourself, you risk a 3-week quarantine for being voluntarily unemployed. This applies if:

• You have been a member of an unemployment insurance fund (e.g., Akademikernes A-kasse) for more than 1 year on your last working day, and

• You are eligible for benefits based on your work (i.e., you have earned the right to unemployment benefits as a wage earner).

You will not receive a quarantine if you have a valid reason for resigning.

If you have been a member of an unemployment insurance fund (e.g., Akademikernes A-kasse) for less than one year when you complete your education, you can only receive benefits as a recent graduate 1 month + 1 day after receiving your final grade. Also, if you have been a member for less than a year, you must have resigned and left your student job before finishing your education. Otherwise, you will face a 3-week quarantine. This quarantine is in addition to the 1 month + 1 day waiting period because of your short membership duration.

You cannot use a quarantine period to take a vacation. During this time, just like when receiving unemployment benefits, you must be available for work, registered as unemployed on jobnet.dk, attend meetings, apply for jobs, and update your job log.

you can also meet the requirement by having at least 600 hours of employment before applying for unemployment benefits.

The 600 hours have to be distributed over 12 months within the last 24 months before you register as unemployed. It does not have to be 12 consecutive months.

You can include paid hours that are outside your membership period, but the hours must be reported to SKAT. You can use working hours from another EEA country, but at least 150 of the paid hours must come from subsequent work in Denmark. The requirement of 600 hours (tilknytningskravet) must be met again in the event of a new right to unemployment benefit as a graduate.