Coordination with other benefits

Financial aid is not available in combination with certain benefits or in certain situations. You cannot get financial aid if you receive

  • financial aid from some other country or from the Åland Islands
  • unemployment benefits
  • Child Benefit (but you can be paid Housing Supplement)
  • Sickness Allowance
  • adult education subsidy (but you can get a government guarantee for your student loan)
  • job alternation compensation
  • Rehabilitation Allowance for the same course of study
  • compensation for loss of earnings on account of an accident
  • or a pension (survivors' pensions do not affect eligibility for financial aid).

Finally, financial aid is not available if you attend labour policy education or apprenticeship training, are performing military or non-military service, or are incarcerated.

Updated 10/22/12