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Early Reemployment Allowance Calculator

Take a new job while your benefits are still running and half of what is left can be paid as a lump sum.

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Your job-seeking allowance

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Early Reemployment Allowanceremaining benefit days×1/2×daily job-seeking allowance

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Two names, and only one of them is on this page

Also written early re-employment allowance. Public bodies use both spellings for the same thing.
TermWhat it means
Unemployment benefitsThe umbrella term. It is what people search for and what covers the whole scheme.
Job-seeking allowanceThe payment itself (구직급여), paid per day while you look for work.
Early Reemployment AllowanceA separate lump sum (조기재취업수당) for taking a job before those days run out.
This page assumes your claim was already approved.Not there yet? Start with the unemployment benefits calculator

Can you get it on your visa?

Read the two right-hand columns together. Only one column has a No in it, and it is not the one that pays your daily allowance.
VisaJob-seeking allowanceEarly Reemployment Allowance
E-1 to E-8, C-4, H-1Yes, if enrollment was filedYes
F-2, F-5, F-6Yes, covered automaticallyYes
F-4Yes, if enrollment was filedYes
E-9, H-2Yes, if enrollment was filedNo - excluded by the Act
D-7, D-8, D-9, E-10Yes, if enrollment was filedNot named either way - check with 1350

Why E-9 and H-2 are treated differently here

Article 64 of the Employment Insurance Act writes the exclusion into the law itself, not into a guideline. It applies to workers covered by the foreign worker employment law, which in practice means E-9 and H-2. Their job-seeking allowance is untouched by it.
This is not the same thing as a workplace change, the separate procedure E-9 and H-2 workers use to move employers.

The three conditions

  1. 1
    Wait out the first 14 daysYou have to start the new job after 14 days have passed from the day you registered as unemployed.
  2. 2
    Keep half your daysOn the day before you start work, at least half of your prescribed benefit days must still be unused.
  3. 3
    Stay 12 monthsTwelve months or more in the new job, or running your own business that long. Six months if you were 65 or over when you left.

When the money actually arrives

This is not money that turns up in the month you start work. The gap between starting and applying is a full year.
Point in timeWhat happens
You register as unemployedYour benefit days start running
Day 15 onwardsA new job from here on can qualify
You start the new jobThe job-seeking allowance stops
12 months laterYou become able to apply
After you applyThe lump sum is paid

When you will not get it

Going back to the previous employer is the one that catches people most often.
SituationWhy it fails
You went back to your last employerRehiring by the same employer, or a business connected to it, is excluded
The job was already promised to youAn employer who agreed to hire you before you registered as unemployed does not count
You were appointed as a public officialState and local government appointments are excluded
The new job pays above the ceilingA wage ceiling set by ministerial notice cuts the allowance off, and the figure is revised
You left the new job at 8 monthsTwelve months is a condition, and it is checked when you apply

FAQ ❓

Your job-seeking allowance stops once you start work, but the days you did not use are not simply lost. Meet the conditions and half of what was left is paid as a single lump sum, which is the point of this allowance.
No. Article 64 of the Employment Insurance Act excludes workers covered by the foreign worker employment law - in practice E-9 and H-2 - from this allowance specifically. Your job-seeking allowance is unaffected, and nothing about claiming it is in question.
E-1 through E-8, C-4, H-1, and the residence-type visas F-2, F-4, F-5 and F-6 are all outside the excluded group, so they can claim. E-9 and H-2 cannot. D-7, D-8, D-9 and E-10 are not named either way in the decree, so check with the Employment and Labor counselling line on 1350 before you plan around it.
Twelve months after you start the new job or the business, once you have actually stayed that long. If you were 65 or older when you left the previous job, the wait is six months. Applying on your first day at the new employer is the most common mistake.
No. Returning to your last employer, or to a business connected to it, is one of the listed exclusions. So is being hired by an employer who had already promised you the job before you registered as unemployed.
Then the allowance is not paid. Twelve months of continuous employment is a condition, not a guideline, and it is checked when you apply.
That works the same way. Run the business continuously for 12 months or more and the allowance applies, on the same half-of-what-is-left formula.
At the Employment Welfare Plus Center that handled your claim - your local employment center. The counselling line on 1350 can tell you which one and what to bring.

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