Graduated over 30 under EU reunification regulations

Hi,

we do not guide about work permit, so concerning that part of your question, we recommend you to ask SIRI.

However we can say that your work permit must:
– give right to take any job with one day notice
– must not be conditional on that you must not receive unemployment benefits.

But if we assume that you have the proper work permit, I can not see why you should not be able to get Unemployment benefits.
According to your information you meet the requirements for graduate rights as we describe on this page:
https://www.a-kasser.dk/graduates/

Concerning the affiliate-requirement (in your case instead of meeting the language-requirement), its important that you have got income reported to the income-register for 12 months during the last 24 months prior to unemployment. And the total number of hours must be at least 600. According to your information you will meet this requirement.

For you it doesn’t matter if you join the A-kasse before graduation or at latest 14 days after. Your rights to unemployment benefits (“dagpenge”) will be the same. You will have 1 month waiting period.

You can easily join now if you want, but you will have to pay member fee to the A-kasse. If you do so, you just have to remember to change status to newly graduated at latest 14 days after graduation.

When you have the graduate rights registered in the A-kasse, you can wait to start receving “dagpenge”, if you plan to have holiday after graduation. When you are granted unemployment benefits as a newly graduate you will have one year with dagpenge which must be used within a “reference”-period of two years.

As long as you dont receive dagpenge, you are free to do what you want to do.

Let me know if you have further questions.

Best regards,
Anders Weber, A-kasser.dk