You may apply for earnings-related daily allowance again after your parental allowance period expires. Assuming all other conditions are met, you are entitled to daily allowance if
- your maximum period of 300, 400 or 500 payment days has not expired,
- you register as an unemployed jobseeker with the TE Office after your parental leave, and
- you have remained a member of the KOKO unemployment fund all this time.
Attach copies of the Kela decisions on your parental leave to your daily allowance application. If you or your spouse have applied for or received home child care allowance for a period after your parental leave, attach a child home care allowance enquiry to your application.
You may submit your first application to KOKO when your unemployment has lasted 2 weeks. eService will instruct you to fill out a first application, because more than 6 months will have elapsed between applications. After this, you may apply for daily allowance for periods of 4 weeks or more on a continuing application or express application.