📋 Tender Overview
The proposal is to remove the protective part from the adjustment of unemployment benefits. The protective component refers to the part of the result that is not taken into account in the calculation of the amount of adjusted unemployment benefit. Currently, the protection portion is €300 for a one-month mediation period and €279 for a four-consecutive calendar week mediation period.
In future, the right to unemployment benefit would begin after a waiting period of seven unemployment days. In addition, holiday compensation paid at the end of full-time work lasting more than two weeks would prevent the payment of unemployment benefit for the period for which the holiday compensation is accrued. The accrual of holiday compensation refers to dividing holiday compensation received from paid work by the average daily wage of the work.
The draft law proposes that child increments to unemployment benefit would be abolished. The abolition of the increases will result in changes to the amount of mobility allowance and certain provisions concerning the financing of unemployment benefits. The abolition of child supplements also affects the maintenance allowance and the financing of the child maintenance allowance, because the child supplement in unemployment security has been used to pay maintenance payments in situations where the parent liable for maintenance is unable to pay the maintenance.
The amendments concerning the removal of the protective part of unemployment benefit adjustment and the abolition of child increments would increase the similarity of unemployment security between unemployment benefit and other benefits that secure subsistence, because benefits paid on the basis of the Health Insurance Act, for example, do not include child increases or the aforementioned protective components.
