Claims for earnings-related allowance must always be made retroactively. An application for daily allowance can therefore be made only up to the current day. The application must be made at the latest within 3 months from the first day of lay-off.
If you work part-time and have received adjusted allowance from the fund before to the lay-off, continue to send application in the same rhythm as before. The lay-off doesn't change your situation in terms of applying for allowance in any way.
If you are laid off from full-time work, always fill in the application so, that the application period ends on a Sunday.
You can send your first application, when you have been a job seeker for about two weeks.
If your lay-off lasts less than two weeks, you can send an application as soon as your lay-off ends.
If you have been laid off by shortening your working week (i.e. you are not laid off for a full week), you must always fill in the application form for the entire calendar week (Mon - Sun).
Exampe: You have been laid off from Tuesday 3.8.2021 to Thursday 5.8.2021. The lay-off doesn´t last a full calendar week, so it is considered a lay-off for a shortened work week. Fill in the application from Monday 2.8.2021 until Sunday 8.8.2021. You can send the application to the fund no earlier than Sunday 8.8.2021.
If your lay-off continues, further application must be sent either in periods of 4 weeks (from Monday to Sunday) or monthly (either for a calendar month or from the middle of a month to the middle of next month, for example from the 10. day to the 9. day of next month).
If you are laid off full-time and the last weekday of your first application was a Sunday, the fund, as a rule, marks the rhythm of follow-up applications as 4 weeks. In other case, the rhythm is marked as monthly.
If your working hours has been reduced due to lay-off, you must send applications in the same rhythm as your salary is paid.
If you work during lay-off, you must state all the working hours you have done for all of your employers in the application by employer.
If you have been laid off full-time, but you work for other employers during the lay-off, you must send applications in the same rhythm as your salary for these jobs are paid.
The daily allowance must be applied for within 3 months of the date from which the daily allowance is to be paid. If your application is about to expire because you are unable to compile the necessary attachments, you can send your application incomplete and complete it later.
Waiting for the TE Office's statement or waiting for attachments from the employer, are not such a particularly compelling reasons, that the daily allowance could be paid despite the delay in the application.
