YTK - Daily allowance calculator

Advice

You can make an estimate of your daily allowance based on your personal income. Fill in the form and click “CALCULATE”. The application gives you a calculation of the gross and net amount of your allowance. You can also make estimates how income from part-time employment or social benefits affects the size of your allowance.

Type of daily allowance

Choose if you are applying for earnings security or alternation compensation.

Monthly income

Enter here your regular monthly income or estimate your average monthly income (net income, i.e. income before tax deductions).

The amount of daily allowance is, as a rule, counted on the basis of the net income you have earned during the 6 months preceding your unemployment. More precisely, the income from those 26 weeks during which you have worked for at least 18 hours and your salary has been according to the collective agreement are taken into account.

Number of children

Child increase is paid for max. 3 children under 18 years old whom you take care of. Child increase is not added to alternation compensation.

Income tax %

Earnings-related daily allowance is taxable income. If the withholding tax is deducted according to a tax card for employment income, the deduction must be at least 25 per cent. It is advisable for you to get a revised tax card counted for a benefit. When the revised tax card for benefit is used the deduction is done without an increase.

Increased allowance

You may have a right to the increased earnings-related part during employment promoting services, for a maximum of 200 days.

Part-time job

Enter here the net amount of the income you have earned during the application period. Here you can also inform the income from part-time entrepreneurship. Earnings-related daily allowance is paid as adjusted when:

you have a part-time job and the working time agreed upon in the employment contract is max. 80 per cent of the maximum working time in the trade
you have been laid-off for a shortened working time
you have a full-time job that lasts max. two weeks
you have income from part-time entrepreneurship.

Social benefits

Enter here the amount of social benefits you have received during the application period in case they are benefits that reduce the amount of unemployment daily allowance.

The following social benefits reduce the amount of earnings-related daily allowance:

home care allowance
flexible care allowance
financial aid for studies
partial disability pension
disability pension benefit paid from another country
part-time pension
old-age pension (not full)
old-age pension which has not been granted on the basis of full years of service
additional pension arranged by the employer
farm closure pension
farm closure compensation
compensation for loss of income and disability pension under the Motor Liability Insurance Act which has not been granted on the basis of complete disability
daily allowance under the Military Injuries Act which has not been granted on the basis of complete disability
compensation paid under the Military Accidents Act
an amount corresponding to the supplementary annuity under the Employment Accident Insurance Act which has not been granted on the basis of complete disability
accident pension which has not been granted on the basis of complete disability
compensation for loss of income under the Act on Compensation for Criminal Damages
compensation for loss of income under the Patient Injury Act
guarantee pension if it has been granted to supplement one of the abovementioned benefits

The following social benefits prevent the payment of earnings-related daily allowance:

maternity, paternity or parental allowance
special care allowance and special maternity allowance
education support
unemployment pension
full disability pension granted in Finland
career pension
full old-age pension
early old-age pension
individual early retirement pension
guarantee pension as supplement to pension
pension subsidy
daily allowance under the Health Insurance Act
daily allowance under the Accident Insurance Act
compensation for loss of income under the Motor Liability Insurance Act and Accident Insurance Act
rehabilitation allowance and corresponding compensation for loss of income
farm closure allowance
change of generation pension

The following benefits do not affect daily allowance:

housing allowance under the Housing Allowance Act (408/1975)
housing allowance under the Act on the Housing Allowance for Pensioners (571/2007)
child benefit
partial home care allowance
flexible care allowance paid to your spouse
additional allowance for home care paid by the municipality
family pensions including care and additional care pensions
care allowance under the Basic Pension Act
allowance for the care of a close relative paid by the municipality
partial early old-age pension
subsidies under the Family Carer Act
pensioner’s care allowance under the Disability Benefits Act (570/2007)
life annuity and supplementary annuity and special cost compensations under the Military Injuries Act
disability allowance under the Disability Benefits Act (570/2007)
income support
military benefit under the Act on Military Benefits (781/1993)
special cost compensations under the Accident Insurance Act and Military Injuries Act
special cost compensations under the Motor Liability Insurance Act
handicap allowance under the Accident Insurance Act
additional war pensions
additional pensions you have taken for yourself

Salary used as a basis of daily allowance

The amount of earnings-related daily allowance is calculated according to the salary income preceding the unemployment. Salaries for the period when the condition regarding employment has been fulfilled shall be taken into account in calculating the salary income. The salary used as the basis of daily allowance does not exactly correspond to the salary preceding the unemployment, because the statutory TEL deduction will be deducted from the salary which is 4,64 % in 2017. Furthermore, holiday compensation or holiday bonus shall not be included in the salary.

Daily salary

Daily salary has been calculated by dividing the monthly slaary by the number 21,5.

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