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The level of the daily allowance is staggered. This means that the level of the earnings-related daily allowance decreases as unemployment becomes longer. The purpose of the staggering is to make it more profitable to take up work and thus shorten periods of unemployment.

Staggering

The amount of the daily allowance will be reduced for the first time after we have paid you 40 days of daily allowance.

The second reduction will take place after we have paid you a daily allowance for 170 days.

We pay you up to five days a week, so 40 days is just under two months and 170 days is just under eight months.

The first staggering reduces the earnings-related allowance to 80% of the full earnings-related daily allowance.

The second staggering reduces the earnings-related daily allowance to 75% of the full earnings-related daily allowance.

Full 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 €

There is a lower limit to the staggering. After the staggering, the earnings-related daily allowance cannot be less than the basic daily allowance of 37,21 € or the basic daily allowance of 37,21 € plus an increase of 0 € for services to promote employment.

A staggered daily allowance consumes the maximum period of the daily allowance in the same way as the days would be consumed without the staggering. Each day paid consumes one day of the maximum payment period.

The full amount of the daily allowance is restored when you meet the working condition again.

Staggering of the adjusted daily allowance

If we pay you an adjusted or reduced daily allowance, the staggering will reduce the full daily allowance from which the adjustment or reduction is made.

The reduction is therefore not a straight line of 80% or 75% of the adjusted or reduced daily allowance. The reduction is 80% or 75% of the full daily allowance from which the adjusted or reduced daily allowance is calculated.

Transition from old to new

We will apply staggering from 2.9.2024.

Staggering applies to you if,

  • you meet the working condition on or after 2.9.2024, and
  • the working condition requirement is 12 months

Staggering from additional days

We will also stagger the earnings-related daily allowance for the additional days if the working condition for the maximum payment period has been met on or after 2.9.2024.

If the payment of earnings-related daily allowance for additional days started before 2.9.2024, we will not stagger the earnings-related daily allowance.