Kela can make adjustments for excess withholding tax only during the year the tax is paid. Check your income limit on the tax card and request a new tax card if necessary.

Check your income limit and if needed request a new tax card

Kela urges its partner organisations and employer customers to check the validity of the Suomi.fi mandates they need for Kela-related matters and to renew mandates they need if they are about to expire.

Important reminder for Kela’s partner organisations to check the validity of their mandates in the service Suomi.fi

Parliament has decided to transfer students from the general housing allowance scheme to the student housing supplement scheme. Students have been eligible for general housing allowance since autumn 2017. Starting in August 2025, students will again be included in the student housing supplement scheme.

Students will be transferred from the general housing allowance scheme to the student housing supplement scheme on 1 August 2025

Kela’s customer service points will again take into use an instant interpretation service. When needed, Kela’s partner organisation or customer service specialist can book a telephone appointment with interpretation for the customer.

Customers who speak foreign languages can contact Kela through instant interpretation or public service interpreting

Kela monitors students’ academic progress annually. This autumn, the academic progress of some 265,000 higher education students was monitored. Based on the results of the monitoring, student financial aid will be discontinued for about 3,000 students.

Financial aid will be discontinued for some students due to insufficient academic progress

Parliament has decided to limit the eligibility for school transport subsidy to include only students who are entitled to free education. This means that students who are not entitled to free education can no longer be granted school transport subsidy starting 1 August 2025.

Starting 1 August 2025, only students entitled to free education can be granted school transport subsidy

Kela cannot begin to process applications for housing allowance for 2025 until mid-December. We will be able to process applications for housing allowance once all the information needed to determine the amount of the allowance is available.

Have you already applied for housing allowance for 2025? Decisions may be delayed by a few weeks

The application process for the maternity grant in OmaKela changed on 14 December 2024. You can now apply for a maternity grant in OmaKela using the online application form Vanhempainetuudet (benefits for parents). You can also apply for other benefits for parents on the same application form.

Changes to maternity grant application process in OmaKela

The amounts of child support and child maintenance allowance payments will increase on 1 January 2025 in response to the rise in the cost-of-living index. Persons liable for maintenance must make sure to pay the correct amount of child support.

Changes to the amounts of child support and child maintenance allowance in 2025

Kela has been reworking the content on kela.fi over the past year. The updated pages on social assistance are now ready for publication. Work on the pages has included streamlining the content and improving the clarity. Subjects that customers find complicated are now explained even more clearly.

The kela.fi pages on social assistance have been updated based on feedback from customers

Starting from March 2025, an additional EUR 38 per month can be accepted under the Kela social assistance scheme as the additional food expenses caused by coeliac disease. This amount will apply to each family member with coeliac disease who is 16 or older.

Social assistance for the extra food expenses caused by coeliac disease will soon be available to low-income individuals

For persons receiving housing allowance for pensioners, income and assets will have a greater effect in reducing the allowance starting from 1 January 2025. An indexation freeze that was put in place earlier will also be extended. This means that the amounts of heating, water and maintenance costs and the maximum housing costs recognised in the pensioners’ housing allowance scheme will not go up in 2025. 

Tighter eligibility criteria introduced for the housing allowance for pensioners  

Parliament has approved changes to the initial deductible on reimbursements of medicine costs. The initial deductible will go up from 50 euros to 70 euros in January 2025. In addition, the initial deductible will be tied to the National Pensions Index and will be reviewed annually.

The initial deductible on prescription drug reimbursements will change, affecting medication costs for many

The minimum age limit for rehabilitation subsidy, disability pension, rehabilitation allowances and sickness allowances from Kela will be raised from 16 to 18 years from the beginning of 2025. 17-year-olds who have suspended their compulsory education will no longer be entitled to unemployment benefit. In addition, the maximum age limit for disability allowance for children will be raised to 18 years from the beginning of 2027 and at the same time the minimum age limit for disability allowance for adults and care allowance for pensioners will be changed to 18 years. The changes will not concern persons who already receive these benefits, only persons who apply for these benefits for the first time after the changes have taken effect.   

Raised age limit for several Kela benefits paid to young people

You should get your Kela-related matters sorted out in time, because the holidays around Christmas and New Year affect the opening hours of Kela’s customer service and the application times and the payment dates for benefits. Customers can conduct most of their Kela-related business in the OmaKela e-service.

Get your Kela-related matters in order in time before Christmas - the holidays affect the payment of benefits 

Changes will be made to the general housing allowance as of 1 January 2025, reducing the amount of housing allowance for some customers and stopping it altogether for some. The changes mean that assets will be taken into account when calculating the amount of housing allowance, and the benefit will no longer be available for owner-occupied homes. The aim of these cuts is to attain savings in public finances.

There will be cuts to the general housing allowance

Kela will stop paying national pensions to recipients in countries other than Finland that apply EU regulations as from 1 February 2025. This change will also have an impact on which country is responsible for the costs of a person’s medical treatment and on whether they can receive care allowance for pensioners. Further, the change may affect the amount of national pension received by persons who now live in Finland but have in the past lived or worked in an EU or EEA country, Switzerland or the United Kingdom. 

Payment of Finnish national pensions to other EU and EEA countries, Switzerland and the UK to end on 1 February 2025 

During the two-year transition period, the family leave reform has produced the desired results. Following the reform, the number of days of parental allowance taken out by fathers has almost doubled.

Family leave reform has produced desired results - more and more fathers take care of their child at home for a longer period

Kela has launched a new Customer Community this year. The members of this community get to influence the development of Kela’s services through participation in various surveys and studies. Kela wants the Customer Community to be as diverse as possible, so that it reflects the different needs of the customers. A community survey conducted in November maps out the experiences customers have of equal treatment and of service that meets their needs.

Members of Kela's Customer Community get to influence the development of Kela’s services – Kela wants the Community to be as diverse as possible

Parliament has approved a number of changes in the calculation formula for sickness and rehabilitation allowances. Following the changes, more recipients will have their allowances calculated at the lower earnings replacement rate. The allowances will be reduced by a little under EUR 13 on average. However, the allowances paid to recipients with the lowest incomes will remain unchanged. The new formula will also affect the amount of the partial sickness allowance. 

New calculation formula for sickness and rehabilitation allowances to be introduced on 1 January 2025 – allowances for the lowest-income recipients will not be affected

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