You can receive earnings-related daily allowance even when you participate in an employment-promoting service. As a general rule, you will receive the same unemployment...
Did you know that the A-kassa website has a Frequently asked questions page where we have collected answers to questions that our members often wonder about? On the page, you can quickly find...
Light entrepreneurship attracts more and more people to accept work, but many do not know how it affects unemployment security. From the perspective of the unemployment fund, light entrepreneurship is treated in the same...
In the first article in our job‑search series, we encouraged jobseekers to broaden their search from their home municipality to neighbouring areas or even to the whole of Finland. When the search area expands,...
According to A-kassa’s statistics, both the number of members affected by the staggered earnings-related allowance and the number of members who have reached the maximum payment period have increased significantly. The development is partly...
The call for post-secondary education applications for spring is now open. To receive unemployment benefit, a young person under the age of 25 must apply for at least two study places for studies starting...
The number of earnings-related allowance recipients at A-kassa increased by 10.7% in January while the share of laid-off members reached 40%. First-time applications saw a sharp increase of 52.2% from December, and mid-February figures...