New unemployment fund with 190,000 members starts at the turn of the year
The Unemployment Fund of Finnish Industrial Workers and the Unemployment Fund of the Construction Sector decided to merge into a new unemployment fund. The decision...
Local government pilot on employment started in March
Approximately a third of TE Service's clients are about to transfer to municipalities' clients. The change affects people that receive earnings-related allowance and are under...
Membership fee must also be paid from part-time work
Membership fees of the Industrial Union and the unemployment fund must be paid from all taxable salary. This includes salary from work that is not...
Obligation to apply for education that leads to a degree for under 25-year-olds
A young person that is under 25 years old cannot claim for unemployment benefit, if he/she has not applied for at least two study places...
Improvements to eService – application can be sent on the last day of application period
eService of the Industrial Unemployment Fund has been improved in order to facilitate applying of earnings-related allowance. It is now possible to apply for the...
Finka to join the new unemployment fund
Preparations for a merger of a new unemployment fund are proceeding on schedule. Unemployment Fund Finka, which has been an unemployment fund for journalists and...
Number of members in the unemployment fund
The Unemployment Fund of Finnish Industrial Workers has 134,782 members according to census in 31 of December 2021. 402 of the members are individual members....
How does Brexit affect the unemployment security?
EU and Great Britain negotiated a Trade and Cooperation Agreement before Great Britain left the EU on 31 of December 2020. Working periods in Britain...
Taxation of earnings-related allowance and submitting a revised tax card
As a general rule, the unemployment fund receives tax withholding information directly from the Tax Administration as of 1 of February 2021. It is not...
Right to additional days of earnings-related allowance will be removed
The Finnish Government has announced that the right to additional days of earnings-related allowance will be removed. The right to additional days refers to the...
Membership fee of the Industrial Unemployment Fund has been approved for 2021
The membership fee of the Unemployment Fund for Finnish Industrial Workers has been approved for the next year. In 2021, the membership fee will be...
Earnings-related allowance payment for today delayed with one day
An error has occurred when paying today’s earnings-related allowance for some of our members. The problem concerns all allowances that should have been paid on...