Daily allowances

  • If your incapacity for work exceeds the period for which your employer pays sick leave salary, you can claim sickness allowance.

How to claim

  • Sickness allowance can be claimed online in www.kela.fi (only in Finnish or Swedish) by logging on to the eServices using the online banking codes. Allowance can also be claimed by completing the sickness allowance claim (SV 8e) and sending it to EBF or submitting it through OmaKela.
  • Sickness allowance must be applied for within two months from the start of the incapacity for work.
  • Please, check also your employer’s policy about reporting absences

Amount

  • Sickness allowance is determined on the basis of an annual income. The annual income is calculated for a reference period of 12 calendar months prior to the calendar month that precedes the start of your incapacity for work.
  • The annual income includes salary, salary for insurance purposes, YEL and MYEL income, certain benefits and certain compensations for loss of income.

Payment

  • Sick leave salary is paid by the employer and Kela will pay the sickness allowance to the employer for the paid leave.
  • After the paid leave Kela will pay the allowance to you according to their payment periods and payment days, which you will see in OmaKela.

Other considerations

  • Usually, tax is withheld from the allowance at the same rate as from your salary. If the withholding rate on your salary is lower than 25%, tax is withheld at 25%, minimum, unless you apply for a revised tax card from the Tax Administration.

Further information: Sickness allowances | Kela

  • Partial sickness allowance makes it possible for an employee to return to work from a long sick leave on a part-time basis.
  • The minimum period of partial sickness allowance is 12 days.
  • The maximum period of partial sickness allowance is 150 working days.

How to claim

  • Partial sickness allowance can be claimed online in www.kela.fi (only in Finnish) by logging on to the eServices using the online banking codes. Allowance can also be claimed by completing the sickness allowance claim (SV 8e) and sending it to EBF or submitting it through OmaKela.
  • Enclose with your claim a certificate B from an occupational health doctor and an agreement on part-time employment signed by you and your employer.
  • Partial sickness allowance must be applied for within two months of the beginning of the part-time work.

Amount

  • The amount of the partial sickness allowance is half that of the sickness allowance.

Payment

  • If the employer pays full sick leave salary for the part-time work, Kela will pay the partial sickness allowance to the employer. Otherwise the allowance will be paid to the employee.
  • The allowance will be paid according to Kela’s payment periods and payment days, which you will see on Kela’s online service.

Further information: Partial sickness allowance Kela

  • Pregnancy and parental allowance application will be handled by Vakuutuskassa / Employee Benefit Fund (EBF)

How to claim

  • Pregnancy allowance must be claimed at the latest within 2 months of the start of the pregnancy leave.
  • Pregnancy and parental allowance can be claimed online in www.kela.fi (only in Finnish) by logging on to the eServices using the online banking codes.  Allowance can also be claimed by completing the application form SV15e and sending it to EBF or submitting it through OmaKela.
  • You can send the pregnancy certificate through OmaKela or EBF (PL 6, 05801 Hyvinkää).
  • Please, check also your employer’s policy about reporting absences.

Amount

  • Pregnancy and parental allowance is determined on the basis of an annual income. The annual income is calculated for a reference period of 12 calendar months prior to the calendar month that precedes the start of your pregnancy leave.
  • The annual income includes salary, salary for insurance purposes, YEL and MYEL income, certain benefits and certain compensations for loss of income.

Pregnancy and parental leave compensation

  • Pregnancy and parental leave salary is paid by the employer according to the collective agreement. Kela will pay the allowance to the employer for the paid leave.

Other considerations

  • Usually, tax is withheld from the allowance at the same rate as from your salary. If the withholding rate on your salary is lower than 25%, tax is withheld at 25%, minimum, unless you apply for a revised tax card from the Tax Administration.
  • Members who are on pregnancy or parental leave are entitled to EBF benefits
  • Members who are on child home care leave are entitled only to Kela reimbursements

Further information:  Families Kela