Agree Folketing adopts new rules: These citizens get it easier now
Countless Danes can not recognize the same tragic experience. Now they get a helping hand.
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Parents who lose a child or who are facing long hospitalizations with their newborns will receive better conditions from 2025 to deal with the crisis. A broad political majority has just adopted a number of changes that improve access to absence and maternity benefit during the most vulnerable periods of a family life.
The background is a desire to ensure more calm and fewer financial concerns when life suddenly strikes with grief or illness. According to the Ministry of Employment, the changes should give parents better opportunity to process serious events without the economy overturning.
« These parents go through an incredibly difficult time. (…) My hope is that with the new rules we can give a little more financial calm in a time of great grief and worries, » says Employment Minister Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen, in a press release.
With the new rules, it becomes possible, among other things, to disregard periods of lost earnings when the right to unemployment benefit during grief leave is to be calculated. At the same time, access to maternity allowance is expanded by infant’s long -term hospital admissions significantly – from the current three months to up to 12 months per parent.
The Change of Sorcerations comes into force on July 1, 2025 and applies to parents who start leave after this date. The improvements to parents with hospitalized newborns are valid from January 1, 2026 and include children born or received then.
The changes are part of the 2025 Finance Act for 2025, which the government signed with SF and Radical Left. The total additional expenses are estimated at just under DKK 19 million annually from 2026 onwards.
Both health and family experts have long demanded better support for parents in crisis situations. A report from the Center for Children’s Well -being documents that families with seriously ill children are experiencing high pressure – not only emotionally, but also financially. Here, precisely time and tranquility are highlighted as crucial factors for both the child’s and the family’s overall well -being.
Organizations such as the Danish Center for Families & Care also welcome the initiative. They emphasize the importance of uniform support across the country and recommend national guidelines for grief treatment. Today, the center offers free therapy to parents in deep crisis – often within a few days – no matter where in the country they are.
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