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    • Switching funds
    • Going from employed to an entrepreneur
    • KOKO fund’s membership (FAQ)
  • Applying for unemployment allowance
    • Earnings-related allowance application attachments
    • Payment of earnings-related allowance
    • Taxation of earnings-related allowance
    • Waiting period
    • Periodisation of the holiday compensation
    • Suspension period
    • Mobility assistance
  • Amount of earnings-related allowance
  • Conditions for earnings-related allowance
    • Conditions for earnings-related allowance
    • Compensations related to the end of an employment relationship
    • Restrictions on receiving daily allowance
    • Make sure that you are not absent from the labour market!
  • Duration of allowance payments
    • Duration of allowance payments
    • Retiring while receiving earnings-related allowance
    • Instructions on when the maximum period has been paid
    • Additional allowance days
  • Temporary layoff
    • Grounds for and types of temporary layoff
    • Work during a temporary layoff
    • Annual holiday or bank holidays during a temporary layoff
    • Termination of employment during a temporary layoff
    • Special temporary layoffs
  • Adjusted daily allowance
    • Applying for adjusted daily allowance
    • Amount of adjusted daily allowance
    • Effect of working hours
    • Adjustment period (application period)
    • Adjusted income
  • Pensions and other benefits
    • Child home care allowance
    • Supplementary pension
    • Illness
    • Disability
    • Affects of social benefits
  • Studying during unemployment benefit
    • Incomplete studies
    • Completing studies
    • Full-time studies
    • Part-time studies
    • Short-term studies
    • Services that promote employment
  • Job alternation leave
    • Amount of job alternation compensation
    • Apply for job alternation compensation
    • Payment schedule
    • Terms and conditions of job alternation leave
  • Transition security
  • Work abroad
    • Job search in the EU area
    • Working in the EU area
    • Working outside the EU area
    • Working in a Nordic country
    • Posted worker
    • Border area employee
    • Determining residence
    • Membership while working abroad 
  • Entrepreneur
    • Definition of ‘entrepreneur’ for the purpose of unemployment security
    • Beginning full-time business activities
    • Entrepreneurship as a secondary occupation
    • Entrepreneurship as a primary occupation
    • Short-term business activities
    • Unemployment security of family members working in family businesses
    • Post-protection
    • Entrepreneur’s earnings-related daily allowance
  • Claim for recovery
    • How to avoid recovery
    • Pension or other benefit granted retrospectively
  • Appealing a decision by the KOKO fund
  • Information about KOKO
    • Administration and personnel
    • Fund rules
    • Trade unions
    • Accessibility statement
    • Data protection and register caption
    • Statistics
  • Forms
  • Contact information
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    • Going from employed to an entrepreneur
    • KOKO fund’s membership (FAQ)
  • Applying for unemployment allowance
    • Earnings-related allowance application attachments
    • Payment of earnings-related allowance
    • Taxation of earnings-related allowance
    • Waiting period
    • Periodisation of the holiday compensation
    • Suspension period
    • Mobility assistance
  • Amount of earnings-related allowance
  • Conditions for earnings-related allowance
    • Conditions for earnings-related allowance
    • Compensations related to the end of an employment relationship
    • Restrictions on receiving daily allowance
    • Make sure that you are not absent from the labour market!
  • Duration of allowance payments
    • Duration of allowance payments
    • Retiring while receiving earnings-related allowance
    • Instructions on when the maximum period has been paid
    • Additional allowance days
  • Temporary layoff
    • Grounds for and types of temporary layoff
    • Work during a temporary layoff
    • Annual holiday or bank holidays during a temporary layoff
    • Termination of employment during a temporary layoff
    • Special temporary layoffs
  • Adjusted daily allowance
    • Applying for adjusted daily allowance
    • Amount of adjusted daily allowance
    • Effect of working hours
    • Adjustment period (application period)
    • Adjusted income
  • Pensions and other benefits
    • Child home care allowance
    • Supplementary pension
    • Illness
    • Disability
    • Affects of social benefits
  • Studying during unemployment benefit
    • Incomplete studies
    • Completing studies
    • Full-time studies
    • Part-time studies
    • Short-term studies
    • Services that promote employment
  • Job alternation leave
    • Amount of job alternation compensation
    • Apply for job alternation compensation
    • Payment schedule
    • Terms and conditions of job alternation leave
  • Transition security
  • Work abroad
    • Job search in the EU area
    • Working in the EU area
    • Working outside the EU area
    • Working in a Nordic country
    • Posted worker
    • Border area employee
    • Determining residence
    • Membership while working abroad 
  • Entrepreneur
    • Definition of ‘entrepreneur’ for the purpose of unemployment security
    • Beginning full-time business activities
    • Entrepreneurship as a secondary occupation
    • Entrepreneurship as a primary occupation
    • Short-term business activities
    • Unemployment security of family members working in family businesses
    • Post-protection
    • Entrepreneur’s earnings-related daily allowance
  • Claim for recovery
    • How to avoid recovery
    • Pension or other benefit granted retrospectively
  • Appealing a decision by the KOKO fund
  • Information about KOKO
    • Administration and personnel
    • Fund rules
    • Trade unions
    • Accessibility statement
    • Data protection and register caption
    • Statistics
  • Forms
  • Contact information
  • Frequently asked questions

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