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from the Carsten Koch committee’s recommendations for strengthened unemployment measures aimed at people on unemployment benefit:

Guidance and retraining should only be an offer, not a duty.

Unemployed people with good chances of finding work should be allowed to choose whether they want a job seekers’ allowance from their unemployment fund or from the job centre during the first six months of unemployment. 

The right and obligation to seek activation offers for unemployed people over 30 should be sped up to kick in after only six months rather than nine. Unemployed people under 30 should have the right and obligation to seek activation offers as early as three months into their unemployment. 

Unemployed people under 30 should be linked to the job centres’  job search processes.

During their final six months of drawing unemployment benefits, all unemployed people should have the right to access a personal career advisor.

The unemployment funds should retain the main responsibility for assessing people’s availability to the labour market, but job centres should be given better insight into the funds’ decisions and be given a right to complain.

The right to six weeks education of the unemployed person’s choosing should be scrapped.

Unqualified people over 30 should be given the right to attend vocational training in return for a reduction in their benefits from day one of their unemployment. A loan should be offered to allow people to draw the full benefits during their education, before repaying it when the education ends.

Job centres and unemployment funds should no longer be obliged to have regular conversations with the unemployed.

Repeated activation should no longer be mandatory.

All job centres should have a strategy for creating and maintaining contacts with businesses.

Source: altinget.dk (in Danish)