Flexi job scheme

Labour market exit benefits under the flexi job scheme (Fleksydelse) are a labour market exit benefit – meaning a payment to you if you have been referred to a flexi job and you want to stop working some years before you reach the retirement age for the state-funded old-age pension.

To be eligible to receive labour market exit benefits under the flexi job scheme, you must:

• have reached an age at which you are eligible to receive labour market exit benefits under the flexi job scheme
• have a flexi job or have been referred to a flexi job (and have been so for at least three months)
• pay contributions to the flexi job scheme
• meet the requirements for seniority from the unemployment insurance fund and for paying contributions to the labour market exit benefit scheme/the flexi job scheme
• have calculated your pension assets
• live in Denmark or another EU/EEA country, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Switzerland or the United Kingdom.

To be eligible to receive labour market exit benefits under the flexi job scheme, you must have earned seniority.

As a general rule, you must have paid contributions to the labour market exit benefit scheme/the flexi job scheme for 30 years, and you must have started paying the contributions no later than from the age of 30 in order to earn the right to receive benefits under the Danish flexi job scheme.

Special rules apply if you were born before 1978 and, depending on your date of birth, you may be covered by one or more of these special rules.

If you need someone else to assist you with your dealings with Udbetaling Danmark, you must first provide them with a power of attorney. On this page, you can easily give digital power of attorney to another person, allowing them to act on your behalf when contacting Udbetaling Danmark. Simply select the area the power of attorney should cover. If you wish to give power of attorney for multiple areas within Udbetaling Danmark, you must submit a separate power of attorney for each area.   

If you are assisting someone else regarding flexi job scheme

If you are helping a relative, partner, or friend with their contact with Udbetaling Danmark, you must first ensure that you have received a power of attorney. If you already have a written power of attorney from the person you are assisting, you can digitally submit the signed power of attorney via this page using your personal MitID. Simply select the relevant area.

To you who receive flexi job scheme

Here, you can digitally give someone else a power of attorney to act on your behalf when contacting Udbetaling Danmark. You can provide a power of attorney for flexi job scheme or for other areas that Udbetaling Danmark deals with.

• Give or send power of attorney regarding flexi job scheme

For those of you who will be helping someone elseIf the person who wants to provide you with a power of attorney does not have MitID, you can use a written power of attorney. The form can be filled out on the screen or by hand, and it needs to be signed by the person giving you the power of attorney.

• Retrieve a power of attorney for flexi job scheme (pdf - new window)

If you have a disability, you may have difficulty reading the document. Please contact Udbetaling Danmark, flexi job scheme for more information.If you have a written power of attorney from someone receiving flexi job scheme, you can send the signed power of attorney digitally. If you are using a mobile phone, you can take a picture of the power of attorney and attach it.

• Give or send power of attorney regarding flexi job scheme

You can also send the power of attorney by post to Udbetaling Danmark, Kongens Vænge 8, 3400 Hillerød. Please note that it may take up to a week before Udbetaling Danmark receives the power of attorney by post.

If you want to know more about powers of attorney for flexi job scheme, you can read more on the Danish page at borger.dk:

• Power of attorney for flexi job scheme (in Danish)