Earnings-related allowance during the strike

Collective agreement negotiations at the beginning of the year have increased the likelihood of strikes in many sectors. If your work is prevented due to a strike that seeks to influence your working conditions or terms of employment, you are not entitled to earnings-related allowance for the days on strike. We can pay you earnings-related … Continued

Submitting a follow-up application is now faster

Filling in an earnings-related unemployment allowance application can now be done faster in our eService using the new express application function. An express application can be filled in, if you have applied for earnings-related unemployment allowance in periods of one month or four calendar weeks, there is no gap between applications, the previous application period … Continued

Copyright compensation no longer affects the amount of adjusted unemployment benefit

Copyright compensation no longer affects the amount of earnings-related daily allowance in adjustment. Other compensations based on intellectual property rights, such as royalty, compensation for use and compensation for an employment invention, will still be taken into account as earned income in the adjustment of unemployment benefit. The amendment of the decree will enter into … Continued

Improvements to study opportunities for the unemployed as of 1 January 2023

Parliament has approved legislative amendments that will improve the study opportunities of the unemployed as of 1 January 2023. In the future, jobseekers will be able to study more without losing their unemployment benefits.   Study opportunities are expanding Full-time students are not entitled to unemployment benefits.  However, jobseekers who study part-time may receive unemployment … Continued

Tax card for 2023

If you have been a member of Aaria since the beginning of the year, we automatically get the details of your annual wage-based tax deduction card, which becomes valid on 1 February 2022, from the Finnish Tax Administration. You therefore do not have to send us your tax deduction card. Please note that when we … Continued

New restructuring protection allowance 

The system of ‘additional days’ of unemployment security is being phased out, and this includes abolishing the entitlement for additional days altogether for those born in or after 1965. A new restructuring protection package is being introduced for persons aged 55 and over. The changes become law on 1 January 2023.   Restructuring protection package … Continued