Benefit eligibility and entitlements

Chief among unemployment insurance benefits is the provision of income replacement upon loss of employment - in other words, the aforementioned unemployment benefit or dagpenge. It is granted to AK members who (simply put) 

Have become unemployed through no fault of their own 

Unemployed persons who participate in any measure of active employment policy receive during this period a so-called activation benefit (akt.iveringsydehe), i.e. a cash benefit whose amount corresponds to the individual claim to dagpenge. 

Break off a training programme offered to them within this frame. 

The duration of the sanction for loss of employment through one s own fault ranges from three weeks upon first occurrence to ten weeks in repeated cases. 

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