In order to qualify for benefits your must register as a jobseeker at the public employment service and be able and willing to accept a suitable job for at least 3 hours per day, and at an average of 17 hours per week. Should you decide to quit a job for personal reasons, if you’re dismissed for misconduct, or if you refuse a suitable job or training, your benefit will be suspended for 20 to 60 days. In order to be eligible to claim benefit you must have been employed for a minimum of 6 months (working at least 70 hours per month), or for at least 450 hours during a continuous 6-month period during the last 12 months before becoming unemployed.
As a student you can claim basic unemployment benefit if you don’t fulfil the main conditions above, have finished at least one year of full-time study, and have been registered as a jobseeker for at least 90 days within the 10 months following the end of your studies.
If you are a relative of someone who has died you may be eligible for social insurance benefits, namely child pension, adjustment pension and widow’s pension.