Transferring benefits from EU-country to DK

Hi,

I assume that your question is about transfering acquired rights (insurance and work periods) from your home country “A-kasse”, and NOT about transfering Unemployment benefits. Its two very different things and different rules apply.

But in the case that we are talking about transfering acquired rights from your home country “A-kasse” (PD U1 document), the rules are as you say:
within 8 weeks after you have ceased to be insured in your home country you must sign up with an danish A-kasse (we recommend to do it as soon as you move to Denmark), and you must begin work in Denmark and work for at least 296 hours over 12 weeks / 3 months.

The “work” can also be as self-employed.
If self-employment cannot be documented via the annual statement (“Årsopgørelsen”), the working
hours in the company can be included in the calculation of the 296 hours, if the company during the period
has been cvr-registered, the company is run more than temporarily and the member declares to run self-employed business.

The requirements for being eligible for Unemployment benefits (“dagpenge”) as self-employed are similar to the requirements for wage-earners.

You must have been member for at least 1 year and you must have earned at least DKK 246,924 during the last 3 years (in total).
In these two requirements the insurance period and income earned in you home country will be taken into account, if you meet the above mentioned requirements for transfering rights.

Income both as wage-earner and self-employed from you home-country can be used.

You can also read more in our articles about these topics:
https://www.a-kasser.dk/transfering-periods-of-work-and-insurance-from-another-eea-country/
https://www.a-kasser.dk/requirements/

Let me know if you have further questions.

Best regards,
Anders Weber, A-kasser.dk