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    • Pregnancy
      • Maternity Grant
      • Maternity Allowance
    • Birth
    • Maternal leave
    • Paternal leave
      • Paternity Allowance
    • Parental leave
      • Parental allowance
      • Partial parental allowance
    • After parental leave
      • Child Home Care Allowance
      • Private Day Care Allowance
      • Part-time child care leave
    • Child is 3 years old
    • Pre-school and school
    • Child Benefit
      • Amount
      • How to claim
    • If child is sick
      • Special Care Allowance
      • Disability allowance for persons under 16 years of age
      • Rehabilitation
    • Disability
    • Divorce
    • Child Maintenance Allowance
      • Amount
      • How to claim
      • Parent liable for maintenance
    • Adoption
      • Family benefits
      • Adoption Grant
    • Single-parent family
    • Multiple-birth families
    • Stepfamilies
    • Rainbow families
    • Other situations
    • Inform changes
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Students
    • Financial aid for students
      • Study Grant
      • Housing Supplement
      • Government guarantee for student loans
      • What kind of studies are supported?
      • For how long is financial aid available?
      • How other income affects financial aid?
      • Coordination with other benefits
      • How to claim
      • Notification of changes
    • Financial aid for foreign students
    • Financial aid for studies abroad
    • School Transport Subsidy
    • Meal subsidy
      • Student restaurants
    • Adult education subsidy
    • Student loan tax deduction
    • Interest assistance
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Unemployment
    • Labour Market Subsidy
      • Eligibility
      • Amount and taxation
      • How to claim
      • Unemployment status report
      • Payment
      • Notification of changes
    • Basic Unemployment Allowance
      • Eligibility
      • Amount and taxation
      • How to claim
      • Unemployment status report
      • Payment
      • Notification of changes
    • Employment promotion measures
      • Compensation for expenses
    • Job alternation compensation
    • Financial assistance for unemployed immigrants
    • Assistance for ageing unemployed persons
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Pensions
    • Who can qualify for a national pension?
      • Earnings-related pensions reduce the amount of national pension
    • Before retirement
    • Approaching retirement age
      • Early old-age pension at age 62
      • Old-Age Pension
    • Decreased capacity for work
      • Rehabilitation subsidy
      • Disability Pension
      • Young persons are usually first granted a rehabilitation allowance
    • From unemployment to retirement
      • Old-age pension at age 62 for the long-term unemployed
      • Unemployment pension before reaching age 65
    • Guarantee pension
      • Who can get a guarantee pension?
      • Amount
      • How to apply
      • Payment
      • Effect on the amount of housing allowance payable
      • Frequently asked questions
    • Assistance with housing costs
      • Housing Allowance for Pensioners
      • Notifying changes
    • Care Allowance for Pensioners
    • Child Increase
      • How to apply for a child increase to a pension
    • Front-Veteran´s Supplement
      • Additional Front-Veteran´s Supplement
    • Employment in retirement
    • Pensions and foreign residence
      • Do you receive a pension from outside Finland?
      • Payment of pensions abroad
    • What to take into consideration when you retire on a pension
      • Notifying changes
      • Pensioner discounts
    • Taxation
      • Pension income and taxation
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Conscripts
    • Basic Assistance
      • Amount and taxation
      • How to claim
    • Housing Assistance
      • Amount and taxation
      • How to claim
    • Maintenance Allowance
    • Special Assistance
      • How to claim
      • Payment
    • Interest on student loans
    • Notification of changes
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Housing benefits
    • General Housing Allowance
      • Eligibility
      • Amount and taxation
      • How to claim
      • Payment
      • Eligibility review
      • Notification of changes
    • Housing Allowance for Pensioners
      • Eligibility
      • Amount and taxation
      • How to claim
      • Payment
    • Housing Supplement for Students
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Sickness
    • National Health Insurance
    • Reimbursements of the costs of private medical treatment
      • Doctors’ fees
      • Dental care
      • How to claim
    • Reimbursements for medicine expences
      • Limited basic reimbursability
      • High medicine expences
      • Special reimbursement
    • Reimbursements of travel costs
      • Amount
      • How to claim
    • Sickness Allowance
      • Amount
      • Payment
      • How to claim
    • Partial Sickness Allowance
    • Long-lasting sickness
    • Occupational health care
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Disability
    • Disability Allowance for persons under 16 years of age
      • Amount
      • Payment
      • How to claim
      • Notification of changes
    • Disability Allowance for persons aged 16 years or over
      • Amount
      • Special expenses
      • Payment
      • How to claim
      • Notification of changes
    • Care Allowance for Pensioners
      • Amount
      • Special expenses
      • Payment
      • How to claim
      • Notification of changes
      • Disability Supplement for war veterans
    • Dietary Grant for persons with coeliac disease
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Rehabilitation
    • Vocational rehabilitation
      • Workplace health promotion
      • Work and training trials and job coaching
      • Education and training
      • Assistive devices
      • Business subsidies
      • How to claim
    • Rehabilitative psychotherapy
    • Medical rehabilitation
      • Individual rehabilitation plan
      • Outpatient or inpatient rehabilitation
      • How to claim
    • Discretionary rehabilitation
      • Neuropsychological rehabilitation
      • Adaptation training
      • Vocationally oriented medical rehabilitation (ASLAK)
      • How to claim
    • Rehabilitation Allowance
      • Rehabilitation Allowance for persons under 20
      • Amount
      • Payment
      • How to claim
      • Maintenance Allowance and Rehabilitation Assistance
    • Notification of changes
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Survivor benefits
    • Spouse'’s Pension
      • Eligibility criteria
      • Amount and taxation
      • How to claim
      • Notification of changes
    • Orphan’'s Pension
      • Amount and taxation
      • How to claim
      • Notification of changes
    • How to appeal a decision
  • Moving to or from Finland
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