National incomes register

Sotekassa receives from the Incomes Register:

• wage information for determining the amount of the daily allowance
• information on pensions and other benefits that may affect the entitlement to unemployment benefits or the amount of the benefit.

The fund can see in the Incomes Register the information that the employer or the benefit payer has reported there. The employer may report the information either:

• in a limited form, in which case the wages are shown only as a total sum, or
• in an extensive form, in which case the different components of the pay are visible in the Incomes Register.

The total amount of wages alone is usually not sufficient to calculate the daily allowance. The fund needs itemized information on the pay components and often also other voluntarily reported information, such as employment relationship details, absence information, information on the earning periods of wages, and income type details.

We recommend that you check your income register information before applying for daily allowance. You can see your information at www.vero.fi/en/incomes-register/.

If you notice that not all the information the fund needs has been reported to the income register, submit the missing information (for example, pay slips) to the fund as an attachment to your daily allowance application. This will prevent delays in processing your application.

When you apply for daily allowance for the first time of after a break

Check that the following information is shown in the Incomes Register:

• employment relationship details for the period used to meet the employment condition
  (as a rule, the 12 months preceding unemployment
  • If the information is missing in full or in part (for example, the employment end date), send the fund a copy of your certificate of employment (työtodistus).
• any unpaid absences
  (for example, unpaid sick leave)
  • If unpaid periods are not shown in the Incomes Register, send the fund payslips (palkkalaskelma) covering the period used to meet the employment condition.
• earning periods of wages
  • This information is particularly important if wages have been paid at once for a period longer than one month or if there has been an error in wage payment.
  • If the earning period is not shown in the Incomes Register, submit payslips (palkkalaskelma) to the fund for the period used to meet the employment condition.
• amounts of holiday bonus (lomaraha) and vacation compensation (lomakorvaus)
  • If the information is missing, send the fund payslips (palkkalaskelma) from the duration of your employment (if your employment has been long, the most recent 12 months are usually sufficient).

Please note that the fund receives information from the Incomes Register starting from 1 January 2020. If your employment condition is met partly based on a period prior to this (for example due to studies, parental leave, or sick leave), we will also need employment and wage certificates from the earlier period.

When you receive income during the daily allowance application period

Check that the following information is shown in the Incomes Register:

• the earning period of wages paid during the application period
  • If wages have been paid for full-time work that ended earlier and the earning period is not shown, send the payslip (palkkalaskelma) to the fund.
• working hours in part-time work
  • If you are doing hourly paid part-time work and the number of working hours is not shown in the Incomes Register, send the fund your payslips (palkkalaskelma).

If you work part-time or start a new job during the application period, always submit the employment contract (työsopimus), framework agreement (runkosopimus) or a similar document to the unemployment fund. As a rule, the employment relationship details in the Income Register do not include all the information required by the fund.

For more information about the required attachments, see Attachments for an application.

If you notice obvious errors in your own Incomes Register information, you should contact your payroll office immediately. The information the fund receives from the Incomes Register is exactly as it has been reported by the payroll office. If there are errors in the information, they must be corrected by the payroll office that has reported them.