Umbrella employment and unemployment insurance
As an umbrella employee, you are employed and receive a salary. However, your unemployment insurance fund (a-kassa) always makes its own assessment, which may affect your entitlement to benefit. Contact your fund before you start if you receive or expect to receive unemployment benefit.
Are you considered an employee or a business owner?
When you invoice through us, you are employed by Scale Up Accounting AB, and your salary is reported to Skatteverket as pay from an employer. Your unemployment fund may still decide that you are effectively running your own business – for example, if you find assignments yourself, set your own prices and have several clients. You may then be treated as a business owner, with different rules for benefit.
If you receive unemployment benefit today
Work and salary affect your benefit on the days you work. Always report your work to your unemployment fund according to its rules, and ask how umbrella employment will be assessed in your case before accepting an assignment.
Building entitlement to unemployment benefit
Salary through umbrella employment is income from employment and may count when your unemployment fund assesses whether you meet the work requirement and how much benefit you can receive – but only if the fund considers you an employee. Join an unemployment fund and keep your payslips.
What we help with
You receive a payslip for every payment, and we provide an employer’s certificate (arbetsgivarintyg) when you need one.
Rules may change, and the assessment is always made by your unemployment fund. This text is general information, not advice.