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Persons born in or after 1950 do not have the right to
unemployment pension. Those born before 1950 do have the right to unemployment
pension. Unemployment pension is granted to a person who has reached the age of
60 and who has been unemployed for a long period, provided that all of the
following requirements are met:
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the claimant has a certificate of unemployment issued by
the employment authorities
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the claimant has received the maximum amount of
earnings-related allowance (or basic daily allowance)
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the claimant has been in gainful employment for at least 5
years during the past 15 years
How do I claim for unemployment pension?
In order to claim for unemployment pension, you need a
certificate of unemployment. The unemployment fund sends its unemployed members
a certificate for applying for unemployment pension when its registers show that
the applicant will soon reach the age of 60 and that the person has received
earnings-related allowance for a minimum of 500 days.
You must take
this certificate to the Employment and Economic Development Office, preferably
as soon after receiving it as possible. The Employment and Economic Development
Office "stamps" the certificate and fills in the remaining parts. In order to
enable the payment of pension from the beginning of the month following the
termination of the payment of allowance, you need to acquire the "stamps" from
the Employment and Economic Development Office within 30
days.
Contact details for pension-related
matters
There are a number of exceptions to the basic rules of the
employment pensions system. It is therefore important that you find out the
details of your pension security from the pension institution where your
employer has taken out pension insurance for its employees. Such institutions
include:
General pensions-related counselling:
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