Social benefits can have an impact on the earnings-related daily allowance. Some benefits prevent you from receiving the earnings-related allowance, some fully reduce the amount of the allowance and some have no effect on the benefits paid by the cashier.
Benefits that have no impact
These benefits do not usually reduce or prevent the payment of the daily allowance
- Voluntary pension insurance taken out by the person himself or herself, or by his or her company
- Housing allowance or pensioner’s housing allowance
- Child benefit
- Municipal allowance for home care support for children
- Partial care allowance (partial care leave)
- Flexible care allowance for a spouse
- Partial old-age pension
- Social assistance (unemployment allowance may, however, affect social assistance)
- Informal Care allowance
- Care allowance for a pensioner
- Compensation for functional limitation Workers Compensation Act
- Conscripts allowance and housing assistance under conscripts allowance
- Disability allowance (disability allowance under the Disability Benefits Act)
- Annuity and supplementary interest under the Military Injuries Act
- Compensation for special costs pursuant to the Employment Accident Insurance Act and the Military Injuries Act
- Compensation paid under a non-statutory insurance scheme, such as personal accident insurance or medical expenses insurance
- Privileged income paid pursuant to the legislation of another country
- Family pensions, including care and supplementary care pensions
Benefits that reduce the daily allowance
- Guaranteed pension, if it is granted in addition to one of the above benefits
- Childcare allowance (care allowance and care supplement)
- Flexible care allowance (spouse’s benefit is not affected)
- Partial disability pension and partial rehabilitation allowance under the Earnings-related Pension Acts
- Part-time pension under the Earnings-related Pension Acts
- Closure pension
- National pension paid pursuant to section 12(4) of the National Pension Act because of blindness, immobility or incapacity
- Daily allowance paid pursuant to the Military Injuries Act and not granted on the basis of full disability
- Compensation for loss of earnings under the Motor Insurance Act
- Workers’ compensation pension not granted on the basis of full disability
- Voluntary pension or supplementary pension provided by your employer
- Pension or other benefit from another country for total or partial invalidity
- Loss of income compensation pursuant to the Act on Compensation for Criminal Damages
- Loss of earnings compensation (pension) pursuant to the Patient Injuries Act
- Student allowance (if Kela has not recovered the benefit) and housing allowance
- Old-age pension not awarded on the basis of full years of service
- Daily allowance and workers’ compensation pension (supplementary annuity) paid pursuant to the Employment Accidents Insurance Act and not granted on the basis of full disability
Benefits that prevent the payment of the daily allowance
- Sickness allowance or partial sickness allowance granted under the Sickness Insurance Act
- Compensation for loss of earnings during rehabilitation measures
- Compensation for loss of earnings under the Employment Accidents Insurance Act or the Military Injuries Act
- Old-age pension and early retirement pension
- Retirement pension based on full years of service
- Individual early retirement pension
- Disability pension or other benefit based on full disability
- Rehabilitation subsidy
- Unemployment pension
- Guarantee pension granted to supplement an old-age pension or early retirement pension
- An old-age pension granted in an EU/EEA country, comparable to a pension granted in Finland
- Maternity, special maternity, paternity or parental allowance (including child care leave)
- Special care allowance
- Adult education support
- A period of notice for which in accordance with the law or collective agreement salary should be paid
If a member receives a national pension under Article 22(2) of the National Pensions Act, or any other statutory benefit not mentioned above, his or her daily allowance is reduced by the amount of the benefit.