Income insurance and additional insurance
As a member of SULF, our income insurance is included in your membership at no extra cost.
The SULF income insurance is uniquely adapted to the challenges that SULF’s members face in their academic careers. In other income insurance policies, scholarship periods or time spent on full-time research studies without employment can cause problems, but we regard such periods as time that can be excluded from the calculation period, giving you greater scope to receive compensation.
To receive compensation, you must be entitled to income-related unemployment benefit from an unemployment insurance fund. This means that you need to be a member of both SULF and Akademikernas a-kassa, (or another Swedish unemployment insurance fund), in order to claim from the insurance. We strongly recommend membership of the Akademikernas a-kassa unemployment insurance fund, and if you switch your membership to that fund, you can credit any time as a member of another unemployment insurance fund.
Read more about the income insurance
Additional insurance
You can take out supplementary income insurance through Folksam. This covers additional compensation days from the unemployment insurance fund for up to 300 days. This insurance must be taken out no later than 12 months before you become unemployed,