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Employee fringe benefits alone may count towards your employment condition and reduce your future daily allowance
If you earn at least 465 euros a month in wages or salaries, your earnings count towards the employment condition. This is important to keep in mind because the amount of your earnings-related daily allowance is determined by the wages and salaries from which your employment condition is accrued.
TE services will transfer to municipalities in 2025
Employment and Economic Development Offices (TE Offices) will be discontinued at the beginning of 2025. In the future, services for the unemployed and job seekers will be provided by their own municipality or by an employment region formed by multiple municipalities.
Check that your tax card’s income ceiling is high enough for the rest of the year
If you receive benefits, you should make sure that the annual income ceiling on your tax card is high enough for the rest of the year. If you need to, you can order a revised tax card.
Increased components of allowances to be discontinued on 1 January 2025
The Finnish Government has proposed to discontinue the payment of the increased component of the earnings-related unemployment allowance to persons participating in employment-promoting services from 1 January 2025 onwards.
No index adjustment to earnings-related unemployment allowance in 2025
The amount of the basic earnings-related unemployment allowance will not increase in 2025 and instead will remain the same as in 2024: €37.21 per day.
The membership fee for KOKO is 63 € in 2025
KOKO fund’s membership fee for 2025 is 63 euros, meaning the membership fee remains the same as in 2024.
How we serve you at KOKO
Did you become unemployed or were you temporarily laid off? Our job at KOKO is to help.
Unemployment security changes in September – see if the changes apply to you
The Unemployment Security Act has undergone many changes this year. In this article, we will explain what changed on 2 September 2024 and who will be affected by these changes.
Earnings-related daily allowance is staggered: The longer the unemployment lasts, the more the allowance decreases
Due to an amendment to the Unemployment Security Act carried out on 2 September 2024, earnings-related allowance will be staggered.
Temporary processing delays for daily allowance applications
The processing of daily allowance applications is currently experiencing delays due to the high volume of submissions, which may result in longer processing times for receiving your daily allowance.
The following age-related exceptions to unemployment security continue to apply in the future
Due to changes in legislation in autumn 2024, a large part of age-related exceptions to unemployment security will be abolished. In this article, we explain age-related exceptions will still continue to apply.
Quick instructions if you become laid off or unemployed
Were you laid off or became unemployed? Check the quick guide in this article.