Editing Economy of the Netherlands (section)

===== Right to benefits =====
To profit from the benefit the unemployed has to submit an application to the Employee Insurance Agency (''Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen (UWV))'' within one week of becoming unemployed and additionally has to register as job-seeker. The WW only covers employees with a sufficient work history,  meaning that an applicant has to have been working for at least 26 weeks in the past 36 weeks before becoming unemployed. If so, the working-weeks requirement is met. Moreover, the employee is only eligible to unemployment benefits if the unemployment has not been due to his own fault (e.g. own termination of the job contract).<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />