Unemployment
What to do when your work ends or you are laid off, and you become unemployed:
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Joint organisation of unemployment funds: If you are laid off or become unemployed, do this
If your work ends and you because unemployed, you are entitled to unemployment benefit. Unemployment benefit means financial support that you receive during your unemployment. You can also get unemployment benefit during a lay-off.
 Forms of unemployment benefit are earnings-related daily allowance, basic unemployment allowance and labour market support.
You apply for unemployment benefit from the unemployment fund or from Kela, if you are not a member of the unemployment fund. When you join the trade union, you can also join the unemployment fund of your sector. The unemployment fund pays you earnings-related unemployment daily allowance, if you fulfil the conditions for receiving unemployment daily allowance, including the condition of previous employment. The earnings-related unemployment daily allowance is greater than the basic unemployment allowance or labour market support paid by Kela to the unemployed.
Read more about the terms and conditions and duration of receiving earnings-related daily allowance:
Joint organisation of unemployment funds
When you receive unemployment benefit, you are obligated to search for work actively. You can lose the unemployment benefit for a fixed period, if
If you have jobs you receive a salary for during the unemployment period, report them to your own unemployment fund or Kela, that is, the place that pays your unemployment benefit. The salary you receive from these jobs is taken into account in the payment of the unemployment benefit.
Read more:
Web pages of your own unemployment fund
Joint organisation of unemployment funds
Kela

Updated 19.11.2021

Are you under 25 years of age and unemployed?
If you are between 18 and 24 years of age, you can receive unemployment benefit, if
If you do not have any vocational education, you must apply for vocational education starting in the autumn or admittance to a university or a university of applied sciences no later than 31.8. You must apply for at least two education locations. You can also apply for upper secondary school if you have only completed comprehensive school.
If you do not apply for or start education, you will not receive unemployment benefit. You can only receive unemployment benefit once you have
Are you an immigrant and unemployed?
If you terminate your employment, your right of residence in Finland may end if you do not have new employment or other grounds for staying in Finland. A new job can usually only be acquired in the same sector. If you change the sector, you have to apply for a new residence permit
One condition of unemployment benefit is that you live in Finland on the basis of a non-temporary residence permit. There are other conditions as well. Check your rights with your unemployment fund or with Kela.

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