If you fall ill, sickness allowance is your principal benefit. If you fall ill while receiving an earnings-related daily allowance, The KOKO fund may pay you the earnings-related allowance for the waiting period imposed by Kela. The Kela waiting period is defined as the day on which you fall ill plus the 9 following weekdays (including Saturdays). You must append a medical certificate specifying the period of illness to your earnings-related daily allowance application. You do not need to append the related Kela decisions.
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Illness
- Membership
- Applying for unemployment allowance
- Amount of earnings-related allowance
- Conditions for earnings-related allowance
- Duration of allowance payments
- Temporary layoff
- Adjusted daily allowance
- Pensions and other benefits
- Studying during unemployment benefit
- Job alternation leave
- Transition security
- Work 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
- Appealing a decision by the KOKO fund
- Information about KOKO
- Forms
- Contact information
- Frequently asked questions