ukk-kategoria: Unemployment allowance

Earnings-related daily allowance is also subject to staggering during periods of part-time work. However, during part-time work, the 40‑day and 170‑day thresholds for staggering are reached more slowly.

Example:
Your full daily allowance is EUR 70 per day. You work part-time so that you receive adjusted daily allowance of EUR 35 per day for the period of work. In this case, it takes 80 days to reach the 40‑day staggering threshold.

When the daily allowance is reduced at the same time due to earned income from part-time work and staggering, the reduction due to staggering is applied first, followed by the reduction based on earned income. You can estimate the amount of your daily allowance after reductions due to staggering and earned income using the Finnish Unemployment Funds’ (TYJ) daily allowance calculator.

A mobility allowance compensates for travel and moving costs caused by accepting a job.

A mobility allowance may be paid if you accept an employment relationship or part-time work that lasts at least two months. In full-time work, your daily commute must take more than three hours, and in part-time work more than two hours to be eligible for the allowance. The allowance is paid only for actual days worked.

Part-time work means work in which the working time is no more than 80% of the maximum working time in the sector. For example, if the maximum working time is 37.5 hours per week, work is still considered part-time at 30 hours per week. A mobility allowance may also be granted for work-related training if the training is connected to employment lasting at least two months. The training must be arranged by the employer or acquired by the employer from another provider.

Payment of the mobility allowance requires that:

• you are entitled to an unemployment benefit immediately before starting work or work-related training
• your daily commute or travel related to work-related training exceeds three hours per day in full-time work or two hours per day in part-time work
• the employment relationship lasts at least two months

If you think you may be entitled to a mobility allowance, please contact us via the Member Pages.

You may increase your insurance level within 15 months by up to 20% so that the increase takes effect immediately in the calculation basis of your earnings-related daily allowance.

If you increase your insurance level by more than 20%, we cannot take into account the part of the increase that exceeds 20% in the calculation of your earnings-related daily allowance until you have maintained the new insurance level for at least 15 months.

In other words, if you raise your insurance level by more than 20%, you must maintain the increased level for at least 15 months for the portion exceeding 20% to be included in the calculation basis of your earnings-related daily allowance.

The work requirement you have accrued remains valid as long as you are not absent from the labour market without an acceptable reason for more than six months. If your absence from the labour market without an acceptable reason lasts longer than six months, the work requirement will lapse and must be fulfilled again after you return to the labour market.

You are considered to be available to the labour market when you:

• carry out work that counts towards the work requirement, either as an entrepreneur or as an employee
• participate in an employment-promoting service
• are registered as an unemployed jobseeker with the employment authority

An absence from the labour market is considered acceptable, for example, when you are:

• ill or undergoing rehabilitation
• a full-time student or receiving a grant
• on maternity, paternity or parental leave
• at home caring for a child under the age of 3

We pay up to 300, 400 or 500 days of earnings-related daily allowance, depending on your situation. If you are entirely without work, each day of paid unemployment allowance counts for one day towards the maximum number of days. Also, if your unemployment allowance is paid at a reduced rate because you are receiving some other benefit (such as part-time disability pension), each day counts towards one day towards the maximum.

When we pay an adjusted daily allowance, the maximum number of days is used proportion to the number of days we pay you the allowance.

Example:

Your full unemployment allowance is €70 per day. You work part-time and receive an adjusted allowance of €35 per day. In this case, you use 10 days towards the maximum days over an application period of 20 days.

Earnings-related daily allowance has a minimum amount. The amount of earnings-related daily allowance paid is always at least the amount of the basic allowance. Staggering , (i.e. the reduction of the earnings-related daily allowance in two stages) does not apply to the basic allowance.

If the amount of the daily allowance before the differentiation is equal to the basic allowance, the staggering is not applied to the daily allowance.

You are not entitled to earnings-related unemployment allowance for the period over which we periodise profits from the sale of business assets related to the closure of your business activities.

Sales profits may arise, for example, from the sale of shares, a partnership interest, a business or corporate assets. Sales profits may also arise from unsold business assets or those taken into your own use .

Possible sales profits are investigated and periodised after you have ended your business activities. Sales profits are periodised according to the work income on which the earnings-related daily allowance is based. This means that we compare the sales profits with the annual earned income used as the basis of your daily allowance. Periodisation postpones the start of the maximum days which you can be paid earnings-related allowance based on how long it would have taken to accrue the sales profit using your monthly earned income. Profits from the sale of business assets are

periodised over a maximum period of 24 months. However, sales profits are not periodised if your company has been in business for no more than 18 months or if the balance sheet total of your company’s final financial year minus liabilities does not exceed 20,000 euros. If you were not obligated to keep a balance sheet, we will use the inventory of business assets and liabilities instead.

According to chapter 3, section 7 of the Unemployment Security Act, you are not entitled to earnings-related unemployment allowance for the period over which profits from the sale of business assets related to the closure of your business activities are periodised. When your business closes down, the Fund needs to investigate whether you have obtained sales profits from the business.

We will pay up to 300, 400 or 500 days of earnings-related daily allowance, depending on your situation. When you are completely unemployed, each day of unemployment you pay will count for one day against that maximum period. Also, if your benefit is paid at a reduced rate because of a benefit (e.g. partial disabilty pension), each day will count as one day of the maximum payment period.

When we pay adjusted earnings-related daily allowance, the maximum payment period for daily allowance runs in proportion to the number of days of earnings-related daily allowance we pay you.

Example:

Your full daily allowance is €70 per day. If you work part-time work, you will receive an adjusted allowance of €35 per day. In this case, 10 days of the 20-day pay period will be added to the maximum period calculator.

The mobility allowance compensates for travel and removal expenses incurred in taking up a job.

A mobility allowance can be paid if you take up an employed or part-time job lasting at least 2 months. The daily commute must be more than three hours for full-time and more than two hours for part-time work. The allowance is only paid for days actually worked.

Part-time work is work that does not exceed 80% of the maximum working time in the sector. For example, if the maximum working time is 37.5 hours per week, the job is still part-time at 30 hours per week. Mobility allowance can also be used for work-related training if the training is linked to a job lasting at least two months. The training must be provided by the employer or acquired by the employer from elsewhere.

To be eligible for a mobility allowance, you must.

• you are entitled to unemployment benefit just before starting work or work-related training
• your commute or work-related training trip is more than three hours a day for full-time work or more than two hours a day for part-time work
• the employment lasts at least two months

If you think you might be eligible for a mobility grant, please contact us at from the Member Pages.

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