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The daily allowance is intended to provide you with a secure income while you are unemployed.
You can also receive earnings-related daily allowance during periods of lay-offs, part-time work and part-time self-employment.
You can also use it to study!
When can you get income-related daily allowance?
We can pay you an earnings-related daily allowance if you meet all the conditions for it, there are no restrictions and you have remembered to apply for it by the deadline.
The main conditions for getting an earnings-related allowance are
To receive an earnings-related daily allowance from us, you must be a member.
Once you are a member and meet the working condition, you are covered by the earnings protection scheme.
So make sure you join us on your first day of work. You keep your membership by paying a membership fee.
Working condition
To be entitled to an earnings-related daily allowance, you must have been working. This condition is called the ‘working condition’.
When you work during your membership period, you accumulate a working condition, i.e. entitlement to an earnings-related daily allowance.
The minimum length of working condition is 12 months.
Job search
We can only pay you an earnings-related daily allowance if you have registered as a jobseeker.
You can register as a jobseeker on the TE services’ online service at työmarkkinatori.fi.
This is important because without a statement from the employment authority, we cannot pay earnings-related daily allowance even if there are no other obstacles to payment.
You cannot apply for a job retroactively, so register as a jobseeker on your first day of unemployment at the latest.
Remember to apply for daily allowance in time
We can only pay you an earnings-related daily allowance for a period of three months before your application is submitted. This means that if you apply late, we may not be able to pay you earnings-related daily allowance for the period for which you have applied.
For example, if you send in an application in May claiming earnings-related daily allowance for the month of January preceding your claim, we will not be able to pay you earnings-related daily allowance for January because it will not meet the three-month deadline.
So remember to apply for an earnings-related daily allowance at the latest within three months of the date you want the payment to start.
Restrictions on the payment of the daily allowance
There are some restrictions on the payment of the daily allowance. When you apply to us for an earnings-related daily allowance, we will check all of them. If there is a restriction that prevents payment, we will give you a negative decision.
When you become entitled to an earnings-related daily allowance, we can pay you an earnings-related daily allowance for a maximum of 300, 400 or 500 days in total.
The length of this maximum period depends on your work history and your age.
If you have a longer work history, you will receive a longer maximum period of payment. The longest maximum period is when you are approaching retirement age.
