Kela is helping to make the social security reform a success
Kela is helping to build the social security of tomorrow. We are active participants in the social security reform and produce statistics and research to help build a better social security system.
Social Security Committee
Appointed in spring 2020, the Social Security Committee is a parliamentary committee tasked with creating a reform of the Finnish social security system by 2027.
The social security system is being reformed in the 2023–2027 electoral period. The reform process is based on a number of projects launched by the Government and the work of a dedicated committee on social security. Among the projects that Petteri Orpo’s Government has launched to overhaul the social security system are the adoption of a single general social security benefit and a reform of the social assistance and general housing allowance schemes.
The Government’s programme also aims to create a single benefit application model, which would streamline and simplify the claiming of social benefits. Kela is developing this model as part of the Eepos strategic development programme. The aim is that by summer 2025 the single benefit application model will be in use for the first group of customers, those applying for unemployment benefits.
Read more:
- Social security reform (stm.fi)
- General social security benefit
- Eepos strategic development programme
- Single application model
Social Security Committee
In the spring of 2020, the Government set up a committee to draw up plans for a reform of the social security system. The current term of the Social Security Committee runs from 23 March 2020 to 31 March 2027. In a 19 October 2023 decision, the Government made changes to the composition and tasks of the Committee for the remainder of its term.
The Committee is made up of Members of Parliament representing all parliamentary groups. It also has within its ranks some permanent expert members, including Outi Antila, Kela’s Director General.
The Social Security Committee is supported in its work by an assessment and study group, which produces qualitative and quantitative reports and assessments as well as performs constitutional review as tasked by the Committee. Kela is also represented in this group.
Our experts involved in the reform have extensive experience with implementing benefit schemes, drafting legislation on social security and developing the services offered to clients.
Read more: Social Security Committee (stm.fi, in Finnish)
Research and statistics on social security
Kela conducts a wide range of research aimed at making the social security system clearer and more accessible and at gaining insight into the effects of changes made in social security law.
Kela’s Info Tray data portal was launched in 2022. It Tray brings together the research and statistics produced by Kela.
The research and statistical content in Info Tray is for everyone with a personal or professional interest in Kela data, including decision makers, researchers and the media.