Say an Irish national resides in another country (Denmark) and looks for work and cannot find work in her profession. But instead, she finds a part-time job that is poorly paid and she is only working 6 or 10 hours per week. A year later she seeks welfare benefits to supplement her income.
Would she be refused welfare benefits on the basis that she is not a 'worker'?
Denmark has at least 14 different categories of state benefits, each with their own particular eligibility conditions.
Taking Unemployment Benefit as an example, a claimant has to:
have been a member of a recognised unemployment insurance fund for at least 1 year;
have resided in Denmark (which also includes the Faroe Islands and Greenland) or in another EU/EEA country or Switzerland for 5 years within the last 12 years (requirement repealed from 1st February 2020);
have registered at jobcentret (the Public Employment Service);
fulfil the employment requirement;
meet the availability requirement; if your [their] unemployment is self-induced there is a waiting period of 3 weeks before you [they] can receive unemployment benefit.
But no mention is made of not being a 'worker'
