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Payments

We pay out benefits once a month. To get a payment, you must have received a decision granting your benefit. You also need to report what you have done during your unemployment.

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Submit monthly application or time report

To be able to pay out your benefit, we need to know what you have done during your unemployment. For example, we need to know if you have been on parental leave, worked, or were unable to look for a job due to other reasons.

If you received a decision after October 1, 2025, you must submit monthly applications. If your decision was made before that date, you should continue submitting time reports.

Upcoming payments

Payments are made in arrears, which means that you receive a payment in November for what you reported in October, for example. If your monthly application contains irregularities, such as income or other obstacles, all or part of the compensation may be paid later.  

  • Last day for submission March 23 → payment on March 26.

  • Last day for submission April 20 → payment on April 23.

  • Last day for submission May 25 → payment on May 28.

  • Last day for submission June 22 → payment on June 25.

If you do not have an electronic ID

If you do not have an electronic ID and send your monthly application or time report by post, your payment may be delayed.

Register your bank account

Register your account with Swedbank’s account register, regardless of which bank you use, to receive payments directly to your bank account. If you have not registered a bank account, you will receive a payment notice by post, which you can redeem online via Swedbank.

To Swedbank’s account register

FAQ

  • To receive your first payment, you must first have received a decision granting benefit and submitted a monthly application. After that, we pay out benefit once a month, usually on the Thursday of the week in which the 25th falls. If you send monthly applications or time reports by post, the payment may take a little longer.

  • If you did not work at all during your first month of unemployment, you must not report any income in that monthly application. This also applies if you receive a salary that month for work you performed before you became unemployed.

    If you became unemployed in the middle of a month and worked some days, you must report that income in the monthly application.

    Example when you should not report income:
    Your employment ended on January 31, and you became unemployed on February 1. You receive your final salary in February. Because you did not work at all in February, you must not report that salary in the monthly application for February.

    Example when you must report income:
    Your employment ended on January 9, and you became unemployed on January 10. In the monthly application for January, you must report only the salary for the nine days you worked.

  • You receive benefit for 22 days per month if you are fully unemployed. The number of days is reduced if you have any hindrance during the month. Hindrances are, for example, income, sickness, parental leave, and apply to both weekdays and weekends. For each day you have had a hindrance, we deduct 1/22 from the monthly amount you would have received if you had been fully unemployed.

     

    Let’s say you receive 11,000 kronor when you are fully unemployed. If you have hindrances for 2 days one month, we deduct 2 twenty-second parts of 11,000, which is 1,000 kronor. That means you receive SEK 10,000 in benefit that month.

  • Yes, benefits from an unemployment fund are both taxable and pensionable.

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