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If you become unemployed
In order to receive unemployment benefit, you must register with the unemployment office on your first day of unemployment at the latest. Before your unemployment fund can start paying your allowance, an employment official must check whether there are grounds for paying the benefit. The condition for receiving unemployment benefits is that the unemployed person is available to the labour market. Entrepreneurship, fulltime studies, military service or hospitalisation may be obstacles to receiving the allowance.
The basic condition for receiving the earnings-related allowance is that you are a member of an unemployment fund. You apply for earnings-related allowance from your own unemployment fund, and the basic allowance and labour market allowance are provided by KELA.
Self-employed persons have their own unemployment funds. They may receive earnings-related unemployment security if the company has been sold or its operations wound up.
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- General power of attorney for handling of matters related to Kela benefits
Power of attorney through which e.g. elderly parents authorise their children to handle all their matters related to Kela.
Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela - Special power of attorney to handle matters with Kela
Restricted/time-limited power of attorney through which another person is authorised to handle a specific matter with Kela
Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela - Unemployment security
Advice for those who have become unemployed and the recently graduated who do not have a job. The principles and granting of unemployment security. Benefits, allowances and pensions. The most common types of application
Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela - If you become unemployed
Information on the rights and obligations of unemployed jobseekers. Job-seeking plan.
Employment and Economic Development Office, Ministry of Employment and the Economy
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Information on employment services
National Help Line Työlinja gives information on employment office services and guidance for persons seeking work in Finland. Tel. 010 19 4904 (from Finland), +358 10 19 4904 (from other countries). E-mail tyolinja(at)te-toimisto.fi.
- Employment and Economic Development Office
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