european-union employment denmark
Would she be entitled to welfare benefits?
<p>Say an Irish national resides in another country (Denmark) and looks for work and cannot find work in her profession. But instead, she finds a part-time job that is poorly paid and she is only working 6 or 10 hours per week. A year later she seeks welfare benefits to supplement her income.</p>
<p>Would she be refused welfare benefits on the basis that she is not a 'worker'?</p>

<p>Denmark has at least <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1107&amp;langId=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">14 different categories of state benefits</a>, each with their own particular eligibility conditions.</p>
<p>Taking Unemployment Benefit as an example, a claimant has to:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>have been a member of a recognised unemployment insurance fund for at least 1 year;</p>
</li>
<li><p>have resided in Denmark (which also includes the Faroe Islands and Greenland) or in another EU/EEA country or Switzerland for 5 years within the last 12 years (requirement repealed from 1st February 2020);</p>
</li>
<li><p>have registered at jobcentret (the Public Employment Service);</p>
</li>
<li><p>fulfil the employment requirement;</p>
</li>
<li><p>meet the availability requirement; if <s>your</s> [their] unemployment is self-induced there is a waiting period of 3 weeks before <s>you</s> [they] can receive unemployment benefit.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>But no mention is made of not being a 'worker'</p>
