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 student job part –time when you are unemployed. In that case, you can apply for supplementary unemployment benefits. You do this by stating that you will continue in a part time job, when you fill out the ledighedserklæring (your unemployment benefit application). 

If, on the other hand, you are considering quitting your student job, it is important that you resign and do so before you finish your studies. You will get a quarantine of 3 weeks, if you quit your job after completing your education. This means that you cannot get unemployment benefits for 3 weeks. Therefore, please contact us well in advance, if you are considering quitting your student job.