Earnings-related daily allowance
With the Daily allowance calculator, you can estimate the amount of your earnings-related allowance.
Register as a job seeker at the TE office.
How do different forms of lay-off affect the daily allowance?
We also pay an earnings-related daily allowance for the duration of a service promoting employment.
You can apply for earnings-related unemployment daily allowance if you are a member of the unemployment fund.
You can receive an earnings-related daily allowance when you have fulfilled the labour market policy conditions, the membership conditions of an unemployment fund, and the employment conditions.
Briefly:
- The fulfilment of the labour market policy requirements is examined by the Employment and Economic Development Office (TE Office), which issues a statement on the matter which is binding to the fund.
You must meet the membership condition.
- During your membership, you must meet the employment condition.
Other general conditions for receiving the daily allowance include:
We will examine the fulfilment of the membership and employment conditions in connection with the processing of your application for an earnings-related daily allowance.
The TE Office examines your labour market policy requirements and issues a statement on this, which is binding to the unemployment fund. The fund cannot influence decisions made by the TE Office.
Proceed as follows:
- Register with the TE Office as an unemployed jobseeker
- You can register as a jobseeker by filling in the online registration form no later than on the first day of unemployment or lay-off. You can register even before the start of unemployment or lay-off.
- After registration, the TE Office will contact you, agree on further measures and a possible personal meeting
- If you are a client in the local government pilot on employment, the registration must be made throughthe TE Office's My Services
Membership condition until 1.9.2024: The membership condition is met when you have been a member of the fund for at least 26 weeks. The membership period of another fund is also added to the 26 weeks if you have become a member within one month of the end of the previous fund membership.
Membership condition from 2.9.2024: The membership condition is met when you have been a member of the fund for at least 12 months. The membership period of another fund is also added to the 12 months if you have become a member within one month of the end of the previous fund membership.
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