Obligations of the applicant

When you apply for earnings-related unemployment allowance, you must provide us with the information necessary for granting and paying the benefit. In addition, you are obliged to provide us with the reports that are necessary, in particular, to establish the separation of finances and housing referred to in Chapter 1, Section 7 of the Unemployment Security Act.

If there is a change in your circumstances that may affect your entitlement to benefit or reduce its amount, you must promptly notify us. 

The intended changes in circumstances – the information you must immediately report to us – include, for example:

1) previous memberships in an unemployment fund;

2) receiving basic unemployment allowance;

3) being a jobseeker and ending the job search;

4) continued unemployment;

5) the beginning or termination of an employment relationship, public service relationship, or one's own work and business activities;

6) wages or other consideration received from an employment relationship, public service relationship, or one's own work and business activities;

7) financial benefit or compensation received on the basis of an employment / public service relationship or one’s own work or business activity;

8) receiving severance pay;

9) working time spent on work;

10) income from the sale of an enterprise or business assets related to cessation of business activities or taking business assets into private use;

11) termination of an employment promotion service;

12) the end of training entitling to training allowance;

13) compensation for loss of earnings under motor liability insurance, accident insurance or the Military Injuries Act;

14) social benefits received or applied for from Finland and abroad, including home care allowance received by married or cohabiting couples, and a supplementary pension arranged by the employer that is better than the minimum terms of the Employees' Pensions Act;

15) granted or refused guarantee;

16) dependent children;

17) other equivalent change in circumstances;

18) the days on which the recipient of the unemployment benefit has participated in a service promoting employment other than labour market training, self-motivated studies of a jobseeker supported by unemployment benefit, or self-motivated studies as referred to in sections 22–24 of the Act on the Promotion of Integration; 

19) the commencement of military service, civil service or imprisonment, hospitalisation or other comparable institutional care, and other comparable circumstances.