Attachments to the application
Remember to include any appendices relevant to your situation with your application for earnings-related allowance to ensure a quicker decision.
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Remember to include any appendices relevant to your situation with your application for earnings-related allowance to ensure a quicker decision. The appendices can be added online in the eService, in a section called Appendices. If you have already submitted an appendix to us, you do not have to send it again.
The appendices do not need to be original copies. A photocopy, a picture or an electronic file is sufficient. Permitted file formats are PDF, TIFF and JPG. Maximum file size of an appendix is 10 MB.
If you have submitted appendices to the employment authority, we unfortunately cannot access them. The employment authority only provides the fund with a labour market policy statement.
The eService also requests appendices automatically based on your application and information in the Incomes Register. Sometimes some of these requests may be unnecessary because the system is not always able to interpret each situation correctly. For instance, if you have submitted a requested appendix to the fund in advance, you do not have to send it again. Redundant appendix requests can be ignored.
As the situation varies case by case, the appendices required can often be determined only after your application is already being processed. If we need more information during the processing, we will contact you. We only request further clarification if it is absolutely necessary for the processing of your application.
If your open-ended employment relationship has ended:
- due to termination initiated by you or your employer, submit the notice of termination.
- by agreement, submit the agreement concerning the end of the employment relationship.
- due to a bankruptcy, submit the notice of termination and the payslips for holiday compensation or holiday bonus paid out at the end of employment.
If your employment relationship has ended due to the expiry of a fixed-term contract, provide a document such as your employment contract or certificate of employment that specifies the fixed term nature of the employment.
If your employer unilaterally changes your full-time status to part-time employment, reducing your contractual hours on the basis of financial and production-related grounds for termination, submit the notice of termination along with a clarification on the revised employment conditions.
If you receive a holiday bonus or holiday compensation at the end of your employment relationship, you may be able to speed up the processing of your application considerably by submitting your latest payslip.
If you receive holiday compensation at the end of your full-time employment, submit a payslip specifying the holiday compensation amount paid.
If you are laid off, submit your lay-off notice.
If you are a construction industry worker who has been laid off and you receive a holiday bonus (18.5%) in conjunction with your last salary payment before the start of, or during, your lay-off, submit a payslip specifying the holiday bonus. If the following details are not indicated on the payslip, you can specify them, for example, in the additional information section of the application:
- For how many days of annual leave have you received a holiday bonus?
- When did you take, or plan to take, your annual leave?
- If you have not yet taken your annual leave, have you agreed on the dates with your employer? If you have, what are the dates?
If you have not taken your annual leave and have not agreed on the dates with your employer, we are forced to reject your daily allowance for the period corresponding to your annual leave pay.
If you have been laid off and your employment relationship has been terminated conditionally, submit your lay-off notice at the start of the lay-off.
If the lay-off and the employment relationship end in 180 days, submit the notice of termination to the fund and also inform the employment authority accordingly.
Conditional termination is possible only in certain parts of the collective agreements of the construction sector.
We receive your salary data from the Incomes Register so, as a rule, you do not need to submit any payslips or salary certificates. If the data in the Incomes Register is incomplete, we will contact you with a separate request for your payslips.
Detailed earnings payment report in the Incomes Register
If your employer submits a detailed earnings payment report to the Incomes Register, i.e. itemises your salary by wage income type, such as time-rate pay, contract pay, evening shift allowance and holiday bonus, no payslips are needed.
Earnings payment report in the Incomes Register
If your employer submits a regular earnings payment report to the Incomes Register, i.e. using wage income type 101 (‘Total wages’), be prepared to send payslips of the past 12 months to the unemployment fund. You can log in to the Incomes Register to check in advance whether your salary income has been reported with the wage income type ‘Total wages.’
If your employer is insolvent and you have applied for your missing salary via wage security (Wage security – KEHA Centre), submit a copy of your wage security application. When you eventually receive the wage security decision, submit it to the fund immediately.
We recommend that you submit a revised tax card for the benefit to have your withholding rate adjusted to your tax card. If we use the salary tax card we receive directly from the Tax Administration, the tax rate for your earnings-related allowance is always at least 25%. However, if you want us to use the salary tax card we receive as a direct transfer, you do not have to submit your revised tax card.
Read more about tax card.
If you work part-time, submit your employment contract. We receive your salary information from the Incomes Register. If the salary information is not sufficient, we request you to submit your payslip or more information. If you want, you can also submit your payslip as an appendix to your application.
If you fall ill during the application period, remember to report any hours for which you receive salary during your sick days. Salaried hours impact the review of your working hours and the calculation of your waiting period.
See here for more information on falling ill.
If you engage in part-time business activities, activities as a self-employed person, agricultural or forestry activities, submit your latest confirmed personal tax decision. The tax decision indicates your income from entrepreneurial activities. Always report your entrepreneurial activities to the employment authority and to A-kassa, even if you do not receive any income from them.
If you have just recently started your entrepreneurial activities and you have not yet received your tax decision, submit your company’s expenses and revenues itemised by calendar months, as recorded in your company’s accounting documents.
If your entrepreneurial activities are conducted through a limited liability company, submit details on the earned income you receive from the company rather than the company’s accounting records.
Read more about the impact of entrepreneurial activities on daily allowance.
If you are applying for or receiving a benefit paid by an entity other than Kela, report the benefit on the application and submit the latest benefit decision. Make sure that you also report any changes in the amount of the benefit. Such a benefit may be, for instance, a partial disability pension granted by a pension company.
If your social benefit has been granted by Kela, you only need to declare that you receive the benefit. You can do this by using the additional information field in the daily allowance application, for example. Kela typically provides information on their benefit payouts directly to us.