Unemployment benefit (Podpora v nezamestnanosti)

What

The unemployment benefit is paid by the Social Insurance Agency from the unemployment insurance.

Who

You have compulsory unemployment insurance if you are employed. You can have voluntary unemployment insurance, if

1. you are a natural person with voluntary sickness insurance and voluntary pension insurance;
2. you are a self-employed person with permanent residence in Slovakia or with a permanent or temporary residence permit and have compulsory sickness and pension insurance or suspended compulsory sickness and compulsory old-age insurance of a self-employed person.

You are eligible for the unemployment benefit if you have had unemployment insurance during at least two years in the course of the past three years before being included in the job seekers registry. You are also eligible for the unemployment benefit if you had an unemployment insurance during at least three years in the course of the past four years on the basis of a fixed-term employment or you had voluntary unemployment insurance during at least two years and, at the same time, you did not have unemployment insurance on the basis of other performance of employee activities.

How

If you meet the conditions for being eligible for the unemployment benefit, the benefit will be paid from the date of your inclusion in the job seekers registry; the entitlement to receive the benefit expires upon the lapse of the unemployment support period, which is usually six months. The amount of the unemployment benefit is 50% of the daily calculation basis.

Where

Local office of the Social Insurance Company (Sociálna poisťovňa) according to the place of your stay can be found at: www.socpoist.sk/kontakty–xly/48023s or contacted at (in English): www.socpoist.sk/contacts/48749s

An Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family at the place of your stay can be found here (in Slovak): http://www.upsvar.sk/urady-psvr/kontakty-a-uradne-hodiny-uradov-prace-socialnych-veci-a-rodiny.html?page_id=112524 and (in English): http://www.upsvar.sk/urady-kontakty.html?page_id=287&lang=en

Bratislava, 813 63

Bratislava, Slovenská Republika