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Apply for benefits online. Keep up-to-date about the status of your application, your benefit data and the payment dates. Log in using your online banking codes or a mobile certificate.
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Working while receiving unemployment benefits
You can earn up to EUR 500 by 31 October 2020 without reducing your unemployment benefits. Go online to report the days you have worked. No need to provide salary information, which Kela can get from the national incomes register.
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What's new
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New study on baby box programmes around the world: Already 60 countries have adopted their own version of this Finnish innovation -
Kela at Helsinki Pride: Non-discrimination as part of everyday culture -
You can now obtain medicines in Portugal on a Finnish electronic prescription – medicines are available in Finland on Portuguese and Croatian prescriptions -
Student in higher education, check that you meet the minimum credit requirements for financial aid