When you become unemployed, you have different options to improve your chances of becoming employed again. The labor authority may direct you towards an employment-promoting service, during which the Fund can pay you unemployment benefits. Employment-promoting services are:
- coaching for job seeking
- career coaching
- trial (a work trial at a workplace or a study trial at an educational institution)
- labor market training
- independent studies supported by unemployment benefit
- independent studies supported by integration allowance
- rehabilitative work as defined in the Act on Rehabilitative Work
You can receive the same unemployment benefits during an employment-promoting service that you would be entitled to if you were unemployed. If you meet the criteria for receiving earnings-related daily allowance, you will get earnings-related daily allowance while participating in an employment-promoting service. While participating in an employment-promoting service, you can in most cases be paid a tax-exempt expense allowance in addition to your daily allowance according to the labor authority’s statement.
| Note! The labor authority always gives the Fund a statement concerning participation in a statutory employment-promoting service. If you participate in a service for which the labor authority does not give the Fund a statement, it is not a statutory employment-promoting service, and the expense allowance will not be paid during the service. |
Earnings-related daily allowance paid during an employment-promoting service accumulates the days in your 300/400/500-day maximum payment period. Unemployment benefit can be paid during an employment-promoting service despite a suspension period or waiting period.