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Unemployment benefit is payable to insured persons who have been employed and to
voluntary contributors who have worked abroad for a Cypriot employer. Insured
persons under 16 and over 63 years of age are not entitled to employment
benefit.
An insured person may claim unemployment benefit for days when he is
unemployed, able to work and willing to accept suitable employment. He is not
considered to be unemployed:
- when he is unable to work because of sickness,
- on Sundays,
- when on leave,
- on days on which he works in an additional occupation that he pursued
along with his former usual employment and from which he receives earnings
equal to at least 1/12 of the basic insurable earnings amount,
- on any day for which the employer pays his earnings.
Conditions:
- at least 26 weeks must have passed between the day when the person became
insured and the day on which he became unemployed, and in that period the
person must have paid contributions on earnings totalling at least 26 times
the weekly basic insurable earnings amount; and
- the person must have been paid or credited with insurable earnings in the
previous contributions year totalling not less than 20 times the weekly
basic insurable earnings amount.
When an employed person becomes unemployed, unemployment benefit is paid from
the fourth day of unemployment. In the case of a voluntary contributor who was
working abroad for a Cypriot employer, the benefit becomes payable after the
first 30 days of unemployment. The benefit is payable for 156 working days in
each period of interruption of employment.
Unemployment benefit is made up of a basic benefit and a supplementary
amount.
In order to claim benefit the unemployed person must attend in person at the
nearest social insurance office and sign the unemployment register. He must
attend regularly to sign the register on days stipulated by the social insurance
office.
An unemployed person loses entitlement to unemployment benefit for up to six
weeks if he:
- was to blame for losing his job or left the job voluntarily without good
cause,
- refuses or fails to submit an application for suitable work or to accept
an offer of suitable work,
- fails to take advantage of a suitable employment opportunity,
- refuses or neglects without good reason to comply with instructions issued
by the Director of Social Insurance to attend vocational training classes.
Further Information
Text last edited on: 12/2007
Source: European Union
© European Communities, 1995-2008
Reproduction is authorised.
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