Unemployment Insurance Benefits

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Unemployment Insurance Benefits
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Unemployment Benefit

• Entitlement-holders
• - Persons who became unemployed through
• no fault or will of their own
• - Who were employed for at least 12 months
• in the 18 months prior to the termination
• of employment

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Unemployment Benefit

• The basis
• - the average monthly wage for 12 months before
  the
• employment was terminated
• The level of benefit
• - 70 during the first three months
• - 60 in the remaining months
• the lowest is set at 100 of the guaranteed
  wage
• the highest at 300 of the guaranteed wage

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Unemployment Benefit

• Duration of the right to unemplyoment benefit
• - three months for those with one to five years
  of insurance
• - six months for those with five to 15 years of
  insurance
• - nine months for those with 15 to 25 years of
  insurance
• - 12 months for those with over 25 years of
  insurance
• - 18 months for people over 50 with over 25
  years of
• insurance
• - 24 months for people over 55 with over 25
  years of
• insurance

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Unemployment Assistance

• Entitlement-holders
• - People whose right to unemployment benefit has
  ended
• - People who completed trainee period which
  lasted less
• than 12 months
• Pre-condition for being entitled to unemployment
  assistance is that family income per member of
  family does not exceed a certain level set by law
• Amounts to 80 of guaranteed wage
• Duration up to 15 months

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Unemployment Benefit, Unemployment Assistance

• Conditions for retaining the right to claim
• - The person is available for employment
• - No suitable employment for this person is
  available
• - After half of the entitlement period has
  passed, no
• suitable employment is available for this
  person
• - The person is actively seeking employment

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Refunding of Travel Costs

• Refunding of the costs of travelling by public
  transport to a job interview
• Refunding of the costs of registered post for
  sending applications to would-be employers

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Shares of Recipients of Unemployment Benefit (UB)
or Unemployment Assistance (UA) of All the
Unemployed 2001 2005
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Numbers and Shares of Recipients of UB and UA,
Jan. 2001 Dec. 2005
number

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Age Structure of Recipients of Unemployment
Benefit, 2001 2005

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Age Structure of Recipients of Unemployment
Assistance, 2001 2005