An increasing number of Danes are receiving unemployment benefits from the state. In just one year, the number of social security recipients has increased by 10 per cent to 103,800, according to the June figures from Statistics Denmark.

Since June 2008, the number has increased by 55 per cent.

The total number of recipients of unemployment transfer payments has also increased – by five per cent from June 2011 to June this year.

Overall, some 170,500 people receive some form of unemployment transfer payment from public coffers, an increase of 37 per cent since June 2008.

The figures show that the number of social security recipients in job-related activation has marginally increased. In June this year some 56,400 social security recipients were in job schemes, two per cent more than in June 2011 and an increase of 48 per cent since June 2008.

At the same time, there were fewer on rehabilitation benefits. June saw 9,900 on such benefits; 15 per cent fewer than June last year and 34 per cent fewer than in June 2008.

Costs to the state in June 2012 were at DKK1.9billion, an increase of nine per cent compared to June 2011.

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