The staggering of the earnings-related daily allowance will come – in due time
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- Law change
- Unemployment
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From the beginning of September next year, we will apply a new article in the Unemployment Insurance Act concerning the payment of a reduced daily allowance. However, not all daily allowance claimants will be affected immediately.
Staggering
By law, we pay the full amount of the daily allowance for the period corresponding to 40 full days of unemployment. After that, it is reduced by 20%, and by 25% after 170 full days of unemployment.
For our average earnings-related daily allowance, the first scale reduces the full earnings-related daily allowance by about 350 € per month and the second scale reduces it by about 80 € more, for a total of about 430 € per month.
| Full earnings-related daily allowance per month | After 40 payment days | After 170 payment days |
| 1 090 € | 872 € | 818 € |
| 1 306 € | 1 045 € | 979 € |
| 1 523 € | 1 218 € | 1 142 € |
| 1 739 € | 1 391 € | 1 304 € |
| 1 956 € | 1 565 € | 1 467 € |
| 2 094 € | 1 675 € | 1 571 € |
Does the staggering apply to me?
The law is the same for everyone, so in the end all daily allowance recipients are covered by the differentiation. However, when we introduce the new paragraphs, we will comply with the transitional provisions relating to them.
Under the transitional provision, the staggering will apply from 2.9.2024, once unemployment starts and the working condition has been accumulated according to the new euro-standardised model.
In practice, this means that if your unemployment started before 2.9.2024, your earnings-related daily allowance will in principle not be affected by the staggering. We will be able to pay you the full earnings-related daily allowance for the entire period of the maximum earnings-related daily allowance without being affected by the reduction regulation.
We will only apply staggering if your unemployment starts on or after 2.9.2024 and your entitlement to an earnings-related daily allowance is based on a euro-standard working condition. Earnings-related daily allowance entitlement is based on the euroised working conditions, as we can count one full or half month of working conditions as from 2.9.2024.
We will not apply the staggering to your daily allowance if:
- your unemployment starts before 2.9.2024 and your entitlement to earnings-related daily allowance is based on the old calendar-weekly working condition, or if
- your unemployment starts on or after 2.9.2024 but your entitlement to earnings-related daily allowance is based on the old working condition per calendar week.
We will apply the staggering to your earnings-related allowance if
- your unemployment starts on or after 2.9.2024 and your entitlement to earnings-related daily allowance is based on the new euroised working condition, or if
- your unemployment started before 2.9.2024 and, as long as your unemployment continues, you work enough to accumulate the 12 months of working condition required by the new euro-standardised working condition and your unemployment still continues after that date.