Coordination of Social Security Systems

U3 — Circumstances likely to affect the entitlement to unemployment benefits

Information about the U3 form and its use

1. The U3 form The issue of the U3 may well result in the termination of your

unemployment benefit. The U3 form is issued if you are looking for work in an EU country (1) while receiving unemployment benefit from another EU country. The U3 form is a warning from the 3. What happens if you start work in the employment service of the country where you are look- country where you were seeking work ing for a job. It means that this service has advised the but then become unemployed again? employment service in the country which is paying your unemployment benefit about the fact that your situa- Your exportable unemployment benefit will cease when you tion has changed and that these changes may need to start work. This may not be the case if you take up a part be taken into account towards a revision of your benefit time job depending on the rules of the country paying your payments. benefit.

The U3 is delivered as a warning since your benefits may If you subsequently become unemployed again you should be reduced or stopped following this exchange between claim benefit from the country you moved to and were institutions. working in. Your entitlement may partly depend on insur- ance you paid in your former country (and for which pur- poses you may produce a form U1 issued by the authorities 2. What to do after receiving the U3 of that country). This benefit may then be exported to your former country if you return there, for which you will need a Check that the information given in Box 2 of the form is cor- U2 form. rect. If you think it is wrong then you should discuss immedi- ately with the employment service issuing the form. However, if you return to your former country without claim- ing unemployment benefit in the country where you last You may also need to contact the employment service or so- worked and you are regarded as having remained resident cial security institution in the country paying your benefit to in the former country even whilst working in another coun- check how your situation has been affected by this reported try, then it may be possible for your former country to pay change in your situation. your unemployment benefit.

(1) In the following text, the terms “EU Country” or “EU Member State” will also refer to Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland as soon as Regulations 883/2004 and 987/2009 become applicable to them.

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