How to get the status of unemployed?
The status of unemployed is granted to persons specified in part one of Article 43 of the Law of Ukraine “On Population Employment”  .
Such persons include:
- persons of working age before retirement (including retirement on preferential terms or for years of service) who, due to lack of work, do not have earnings or other income stipulated by law, are ready and able to start work;
- persons with disabilities who have not reached the retirement age established by Article 26 of the Law of Ukraine “On Mandatory State Pension Insurance” and receive a disability pension or social assistance under the laws of Ukraine “On State Social Assistance to Persons with Disabilities from childhood and children with disabilities” and “On state social assistance to persons who are not entitled to a pension and persons with disabilities”;
- persons younger than 16 years of age who worked and were dismissed due to the changes in the organization of production and labor, in particular, termination or repurposing of enterprises, institutions and organizations, reduction in the number (staff) of employees;
- a single mother (father) who cares for a child with a disability and one of the parents, adoptive parents, parents-educators of a family-type orphanage, an adoptive parent, guardian, custodian of a child with a disability of subgroup A, who in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On state social assistance to persons with disabilities from childhood and children with disabilities” have the right to receive a child care allowance.
The status of unemployed is granted to the persons specified in the first part of this article based on their personal application (including those submitted using electronic identification) in the event of a lack of suitable work from the first day of registration in the territorial bodies of the central executive power which implements the state policy in the sphere of population employment and labor migration, regardless of the registered place of residence or place of stay.
You can get this status in: regional, city, district, city-district employment centers or a branch of a regional employment center.
To obtain unemployment status, IDPs apply to the employment center at their place of residence with an application for unemployment status.
During martial law, a person who is in the territory of territorial communities located in the area of military (combat) operations or who is under temporary occupation, encirclement (blockade) can apply to any employment center by any means of communication available, including electronic, with an application for granting the status of unemployed.
It is possible to order the service by submitting an application for the service online on the website .
The applicant can receive the service results in person or on the website .
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What documents must be submitted to obtain the status of unemployed?
To obtain the status of unemployed, you will need the following documents:
- Application for granting (renewing) the unemployed status (including an electronic form).
- Passport of a citizen of Ukraine, e-passport, e-passport for travel abroad, or other document certifying identity and confirming Ukrainian citizenship, or eDocument (for the period of martial law).
- Permanent residence permit or certificate of a refugee or a person in need of additional protection or who has been granted temporary protection (applied by foreigners and stateless persons permanently residing in Ukraine, recognized in Ukraine as refugees or persons in need of additional protection who have been granted in asylum or temporary protection in Ukraine, as well as those who received permission to immigrate).
- Certificate of assignment of the taxpayer registration card number (except for physical persons who, due to their religious beliefs, refuse to accept the taxpayer registration card number, have reported this to the relevant body of the state tax service and have a mark in the passport of a citizen of Ukraine) or electronic display information about the taxpayer registration card number, including in the form of electronic display of the information contained in documents issued using the means of the Unified State Demographic Register.
- Employment book (if available) or a civil law contract, information about employment from the register of insured persons of the State Register of Mandatory State Social Insurance (electronic employment record), or a document confirming the termination of the last employment.
- Document on education or its duplicate (if such a document or duplicate is available).
- Application for termination of the employment contract addressed to the employer (submitted by internally displaced persons, as well as by persons who, during martial law, are in the territory of territorial communities located in the area of military (combat) operations or who are in temporary occupation, encirclement (blocking), and have a registered or declared place of residence or last place of work (previous type of employment) in the specified territories, in the absence of documents confirming the fact of dismissal, to acquire the status of unemployed and receive unemployment benefits and social services under mandatory state social insurance in case of unemployment).
- Military registration document, in which the date of registration at the territorial recruitment and social support center is indicated by the law (submitted by military personnel (except conscripts) who are released from service due to health reasons, due to reduction of staff or conducting organizational activities without the right for pension).
- Military registration document for persons discharged from military service, for persons conscripted during martial law due to mobilization.
- Certificate on termination of personal farming or exit from such farming (submitted by members of personal farming for whom it was the primary job (except for persons who are internally displaced persons, served in military service upon conscription during mobilization, for a special period, have finished or stopped studying in institutions of general secondary, professional (vocational-technical), professional pre-higher and higher education), have resigned from fixed-term military or alternative (non-military) service and are being hired for the first time and have applied for registration at the employment center within six months from graduation or termination of education or dismissal from service).
In case IDPs, as well as persons who are in the territory of territorial communities located in the area of military (combat) operations or who are in temporary occupation, encirclement (blockade), don’t have the documents necessary for their registration as unemployed, the employment center receives information about periods of insurance experience, labor activity, wages (income, financial support) in state registers.
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