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Do you have an illness or a disability that complicates your life?

  1. Talk to your doctor about your need for rehabilitation
    If the doctor thinks that you could benefit from rehabilitation, they will write a doctor’s statement recommending it for you.
  2. Learn more about rehabilitation service providers
    You get to choose the rehabilitation service provider yourself.
    Find a rehabilitation service provider (in Finnish). 
  3. Contact Kela to apply for rehabilitation
    Complete the application form and send it in the OmaKela e-service. Please note that our e-service is only available in Finnish and Swedish. After that, send any supporting documents in the OmaKela e-service.
  4. Apply for rehabilitation allowance or partial rehabilitation allowance
    If you have to take time off work to participate in rehabilitation and you are not paid a wage or salary during your absence, you can get rehabilitation allowance. If you work shorter hours due to participating in rehabilitation, you can apply for partial rehabilitation allowance. 
    Read more about rehabilitation allowance and partial rehabilitation allowance.

What else is going on in your life?

Large and small changes in circumstances can affect your Kela benefits.

Are you looking for a provider of rehabilitation?

Rehabilitation and adaptation training courses (in Finnish)

Intensive medical rehabilitation, rehabilitation provided on a discretionary basis, vocational rehabilitation and rehabilitative psychotherapy (in Finnish)

Cardiac rehabilitation courses for adults, multidisciplinary individual rehabilitationand Oma väylä rehabilitation (in Finnish)

On the Rehabilitation pages