How you pay the membership fee of the fund, depends on whether you are a member of the unemployment fund only or also a member of a trade union.

If you are a member of the unemployment fund only (without being a member of any trade union), you pay the membership fee directly to the fund.

If you are also a member of a trade union, you pay membership fees only to your union according to their instructions. Your union makes sure that the fund receives its share of the membership fees.