Barsel.dk stresses timely reporting of scheme entry and exit dates

Administrators of decentralised maternity equalisation schemes must report when employers enter or leave their scheme to ATP.Virk Barsel.dk’s guidance specifies that the dates belong in the quarterly data delivery; if that is not possible, the information should be supplied as soon as possible afterwards. The reporting task is addressed to scheme administrators.

ATP uses these dates to enrol employers in, or remove them from, Barsel.dk. Late information can therefore delay the employer’s change of coverage. The guidance warns that maternity or adoption reimbursement may be delayed, and that an employer can lose entitlement to part of its Barsel.dk reimbursement. It also identifies possible repayment of reimbursement received without entitlement and back-payment of contributions.

The underlying reporting requirement is in section 32 of the order on maternity equalisation in the private labour market.Retsinformation It requires decentralised scheme administrators to report covered employers continuously and electronically under ATP’s guidelines. A quarterly report must be submitted before that quarter ends.Retsinformation ATP passes the information to Barsel.dk, and administrators must also provide information about covered employees when ATP or Barsel.dk requests it. The guidance’s instruction to supply missing information promptly afterwards should be read alongside that quarterly deadline.

Coverage determines which employers pay Barsel.dk contributions. Private employers whose staff are not covered by another approved maternity equalisation scheme are fully covered by Barsel.dk. An employer with only some staff covered by another approved scheme is partially covered. Where all employees are covered by another approved scheme, the employer is outside Barsel.dk.

For employers entitled to Barsel.dk reimbursement, the guidance describes an automatic process following the application for maternity benefits through NemRefusion. Udbetaling Danmark supplies information to Barsel.dk, and reimbursement is paid to the company’s NemKonto quarterly in arrears. Accurate scheme-membership dates are therefore part of the administration surrounding those payments.

The legal basis is the barselsudligningsloven and section 32 of the order of 18 May 2026 on maternity equalisation in the private labour market, supplemented by Barsel.dk’s reporting guidance.