Pensioners - learning materials
Retirement
Read the Suomi.fi website section on Retirement and answer the given questions.
1. When can you be paid an old-age pension?
2. At what age can you receive a partial old-age pension at the earliest?
- a) 55
- b) 61
- c) 65
3. You want to continue working even though you are already on an old-age pension. Will your salary or entrepreneur income affect the amount of pension you receive?
Pension amount and taxes
4. How is an earnings-related pension earned?
- a) The payment of income tax;
- b) The payment of earnings-related pension contributions
- c) With one’s own paid work
5. Who pays national pensions?
- a) Municipalities
- b) Kela
- c) TE Office
6. When can you be paid a disability pension?
- a) You have performed very heavy physical work
- b) You are incapacitated and your condition does not improve during rehabilitation
- c) You have been unemployed for more than five years
Advanced section
Search online for Kela's brochure "Pensions and other pension recipient subsidies" (search words: Kela + pensions + guide) and answer the given questions based on the guide.
7. What is the most common pension?
- a) National pension
- b) Earnings-related pension
- c) Guarantee pension
8. Which of the following statements is true?
Kela pays earnings-related pensions
- a) The full amount of the national pension is approximately EUR 665
- b) A spouse's income will reduce a person’s national pension
- c) You can receive a national pension even if your other pensions are very large
9. Using e.g. the tyoelake.fiOpens in a new window. website, find out the lowest age of retirement for the following persons
- a) A welder born in 1953
- b) A teacher born in 1961
- c) A judge born in 1983