Services promoting employment

Services promoting employment

You can take part in a service promoting employment arranged by the employment official. You can receive an expense allowance during the services apart from self-directed study.

You can claim unemployment benefits during your participation in the employment official’s services promoting employment even if you are subject to a cooling off period or personal liability contribution.

Services promoting employment include:

• Training in job-seeking
• Career training
• Work trials
• Rehabilitative work activities
• Labour market training
• Self-directed study
• Self-study included as part of integration training required by the Finnish State

Expense allowance can be claimed at a rate of EUR 9 per day (i.e. approx. EUR 194 per month). The higher rate of expense allowance can be claimed at a rate of EUR 18 per day (i.e. approx. EUR 387 per month). The higher rate of the expense allowance is paid when the participation in the service promoting employment requires you to travel beyond the area in which you work or when the service is provided by a municipality other than your local one and you have to pay for accommodation. The expense allowance is non-taxable income.