Unemployment and benefits

The Job Centre can give you information about job vacancies, and you can get advice about your job search, the Danish labour market and your industry. The Job Centre can also help if you’ve found a company that is willing to offer you a work experience placement or a job with subsidised wages.

You can also get guidance from the Job Centre about how to apply for any financial support you are eligible for. To book an appointment, phone 39 98 68 00.

You can come and speak to a careers advisor at the Job Centre any Wednesday from 10 am to 12 noon. The Job Centre is located at Maltegårdsvej 1, DK-2920 Charlottenlund. There’s no need to make an appointment; just come along.

You’re welcome to sit in Reception at the Job Centre and use the computers for your job search. You can also use the computers in Gentofte Kommune’s libraries.

Read how the Job Centre can help you on our Job Opportunities page

If you’re a member of an “A-kasse” and you lose your job, you can apply for unemployment benefit. An “A-kasse” serves as unemployment insurance. You pay to be a member of an “A-kasse”.

Read about unemployment benefit and “A-kasse” at lifeindenmark.dk

You can get unemployment benefit if you:

• have been a member of an “A-kasse” for at least 1 year
• have signed on at jobnet.dk. You must sign on as unemployed on your first day of unemployment
• are available for work and actively seeking for jobs.

You must be able to say yes to all three points. In addition, to get unemployment benefit, you must:

• have worked for at least 52 weeks within the last 3 years (if you’re insured for full-time work)
• have worked for at least 34 weeks within the last 3 years (if you’re insured for part-time work)
• have been self-employed for at least 52 or 34 weeks, depending on whether you are insured for full-time or part-time self-employment.

Contact your “A-kasse” for more information.

How to apply for unemployment benefit
Sign on as unemployed at jobnet.dk the first day you are unemployed.

Visit jobnet.dk

Then fill in a declaration of unemployment on your “A-kasse” website.

Are you newly qualified?
To receive unemployment benefit, you must register with an “A-kasse” no later than two weeks after qualifying.

You are entitled to unemployment benefit 1 month after qualifying. If you have recently qualified, you won’t get full unemployment benefit, but you will get the rate for newly qualified members.

If you’ve become unemployed and can’t support yourself, you may be able to apply for social security,
e.g. if you’ve lost your job but you’re not entitled to unemployment benefit.

You can get social security if:

• you’re over 30 or have qualifications, and
• you can’t support yourself or your family, e.g. because you’ve lost your job, you’re ill or
• you have stopped living with your spouse/partner.
• you have no other means of support, e.g. assets, unemployment benefit or a pension.
• you don’t have any assets, i.e. money or valuables that can readily be converted into money. We disregard amounts up to DKK 10,000 for a single person or DKK 20,000 combined for couples, however.

How to apply for social security
Sign on as unemployed at jobnet.dk the first day you are unemployed.

Visit jobnet.dk

You must attend the Job Centre the first working day after you’ve signed on as unemployed. You’ll have an interview with both the Job Centre and the Benefits Office.

The Job Centre provides help and coaching for unemployed people seeking work or training.

The Benefits Office pays benefits to unemployed or sick residents.

You can apply for training assistance if:

• you’re under 30
• you don’t have a vocational qualification, e.g. carpenter, clerk or social/healthcare assistant
• you can’t support yourself or your family, e.g. because you’ve lost your job, you’re ill or you have stopped living with your spouse/partner.
• you have no other means of support, e.g. assets or unemployment benefit.
• you don’t have any assets, i.e. money or valuables that can readily be converted into money. Gentofte Kommune disregards amounts up to DKK 10,000 for a single person or DKK 20,000 combined for couples, however.

How to apply for training assistance
Sign on as unemployed at jobnet.dk the first day you are unemployed.

Visit jobnet.dk

You must attend Ungecenter Gentofte the first working day after you’ve signed on as unemployed. You’ll have an interview with the Ungecenter and the Benefits Office.

Ungecenter provides help and coaching for young people seeking training or work.
The Benefits Office pays benefits to unemployed or sick residents.

If you can’t get social security or training assistance, you may be entitled to self-support and return/transition allowance.

You can apply for self-support and return/transition allowance if:

• you’ve lived less than 9 of the last 10 years in Denmark, the Faroe Islands or Greenland.
• you can’t support yourself or your family, e.g. because you’ve lost your job, you’re ill or you have stopped living with your spouse/partner.
• you have no other means of support, e.g. assets or unemployment benefit.
• you don’t have any assets, i.e. money or valuables that can readily be converted into money. Gentofte Kommune disregards amounts up to DKK 10,000 for a single person or DKK 20,000 combined for couples, however.

How to apply for self-support and return/transition allowance
Sign on as unemployed at jobnet.dk the first day you are unemployed.

Visit jobnet.dk

For help with signing on as unemployed, you can also phone Gentofte Kommune’s Job Centre on tel. 39 98 68 00

You must attend the Job Centre the first working day after you’ve signed on as unemployed. You’ll have an interview with both the Job Centre and the Benefits Office.

If you become ill or are injured and unable to work, you can apply for sickness benefit.

Read about sickness benefit