What income is taken into account in the adjustment?
The amount of your adjusted daily allowance depends on the income that you receive when you are unemployed. In adjustment, we take into account the income you earn from working.
Types of income earned from working that we take into account in the adjustment process:
- The basic salary you are paid for your work and any extras and compensations added to you basic salary, such as evening pay, overtime pay, standby and on-duty compensation, and fringe benefits or staff benefits subject to tax
Holiday bonuses and holiday compensation
Holiday pay based on part-time work
Pay for the notice period if the person’s application for unemployment benefit is not rejected because of their right to receive pay for the notice period
Performance-based pay, such as commission, bonus and share of profits
Insurance premium paid for endowment insurance by the employer
Insurance premium for an individual voluntary pension insurance paid by the employer, for the part that it is subject to tax
Grants and scholarships paid by the employer, for the part subject to tax
Compensation based on immaterial rights, but not copyright compensation;
Reward paid for shop steward or occupational safety delegate duties, and reward paid for cooperation in accordance with the Act on Cooperation within Undertakings
Reward equivalent to salary
Salary paid as pay security for the part that would be adjusted earned income if paid by the employer
Service charge
Income earned from working as an entrepreneur, excluding net income from silviculture calculated according to the Act on the Taxation of Farm Income
Earned income part of dividend income
Earned income part of hidden dividend
Monetary compensation withdrawn from a working hours bank
Other earned income equivalent to the above.
Income that is not taken into account
Types of income earned through work that we do not take into account in the adjustment process:
- Financial benefits paid by the employer on the basis of the employee’s established salary;
- Cash withdrawals from a working hours bank in so far as they can be matched to specific periods of time;
- Pay for the period of notice if the claimant’s right to receive pay for the notice period invalidates their claim for unemployment benefits;
- Holiday pay based on full-time work;
- Regular tax-free employee benefits;
- Individual voluntary pension insurance contributions, for the part that is not subject to tax;
- Compensation received for delayed payment of the final pay cheque;
- Damages;
- Money received as a gift;
- Grants and scholarships, for the part that is not subject to tax;
- Interest saved on employment-related loans;
- Additional benefits based on the employer’s health insurance policy;
- Payments received from the personnel fund;
- Profit-sharing cheques;
- Wages paid from state-guaranteed funds in the event of the employer’s insolvency, for the part that would, if paid by the employer, not be taken into account in the adjustment process;
- Income from employment-based shares;
- Income from the exercise of employment-based share options, except where the agreed strike price is substantially below the fair value of the share when the options are given and the options are exercised within one year or where the options are given as remuneration for work;
- Dividends from shares, for the part that is taxed as capital gains;
- Disguised dividends, for the part that is taxed as capital gains;
- Remuneration received for services rendered in a position of trust;
- Bonuses given in the form of shares of the employer company or a company in the same group of companies or some other similar financial consortium that are traded on a regulated market subject to supervision by the authorities or on a multilateral trading facility subject to supervision by the authorities, or as investment deposits or in another corresponding form; or instead of shares either partly or wholly in cash, provided that the value of such a bonus is dependent on the development of the value of the shares in question during a subsequent period of at least one year after the bonus has been promised;
- Copyright royalties;
- Any other income comparable to those mentioned above.