Unemployment and unemployment security

Employment offices provide employment services, help in job seeking and offer various support services such as counselling for job seekers. Unemployed people can also participate in labour market training.

The basic condition for receiving unemployment security is that the unemployed person is available to the labour market. Unemployed persons can apply for unemployment benefits when they have registered as job seekers with the employment office.

In Finland, a person can prepare for unemployment by joining an unemployment fund. These funds pay their members earnings-related unemployment allowance. KELA pays a basic allowance to those who are not members of any unemployment fund, if the conditions for the benefit are fulfilled.

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.

• If you become unemployed
  Information on the rights and obligations of unemployed jobseekers. Job-seeking plan.
  
  http://www.mol.fi/mol/en/02_working/01_services/07_unemployed/index.jsp
  Employment and Economic Development Office, Ministry of Employment and the Economy
• 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
  
  http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/081101150015EH?OpenDocument
  Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela

Unemployment security

• Unemployment allowance
  Applying for unemployment allowance, principles and deductibles.
  
  http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/020702133036EH?openDocument
  Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela
• Unemployment pension
  Eligibility for unemployment pension and amount of pension. Effect of temporary work on unemployment benefits.
  
  http://www.tyoelake.fi/Page.aspx?Section=39397
  Finnish Centre for Pensions
• Labour market subsidy
  Applying for labour market subsidy, eligibility and waiting periods.
  
  http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/090702101619EH?openDocument
  Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela
• Training allowance
  Assistance for unemployed persons undergoing training. Principles and important things for the training allowance applicant to remember.
  
  http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/090702115914EH?OpenDocument
  Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela
• Unemployment cover for entrepreneurs
  Information on social benefits for the unemployed entrepreneur.
  
  http://www.yrityssuomi.fi/default.aspx?nodeid=15824&lang=2&PresLanId=2
  Produced by several organisations
• Start-up grant - subsidy for entrepreneurs starting up their own business
  Principles for granting the start-up subsidy, amounts given.
  
  http://www.yrityssuomi.fi/default.aspx?ContentID=11316&NodeID=15894
  Produced by several organisations

Training and training allowance

The labour administration funds labour market training for unemployed job seekers, which is often vocational. The aim of the training is to improve the channels of finding employment. A job seeker who is eligible for unemployment benefits may receive training allowance during training. Training allowance is paid either as basic allowance or, if the person is a member of unemployment fund, as earnings-related allowance.

A person who has been unemployed for a long time may receive training allowance if they improve their professional capabilities through independent, fulltime study. This allowance is the same amount as the applicant's labour market allowance, basic allowance or earnings-related allowance depending on which of these the applicant has been entitled to during their period of unemployment.

• Training allowance
  Assistance for unemployed persons undergoing training. Principles and important things for the training allowance applicant to remember.
  
  http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/090702115914EH?OpenDocument
  Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela
• Integration assistance for immigrants
  Payment of integration assistance before joining the labour force. Cooperation between the various authorities.
  
  http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/english.nsf/NET/090702120403EH?openDocument
  Social Insurance Institution of Finland Kela
• Labour market training
  Labour market training is provided free of charge. It is designed primarily for unemployed jobseekers and those over the age of 20 who are under the threat of becoming unemployed.
  
  http://www.mol.fi/mol/en/02_working/01_services/02_labourtraining/index.jsp
  Employment and Economic Development Office, Ministry of Employment and the Economy

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