Have you already applied for housing allowance for 2025? Decisions may be delayed by a few weeks
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.
If you have applied for housing allowance or a review of your housing allowance for 2025, the processing time may be longer than usual due to changes that will be introduced as of the beginning of 2025. Kela will be able to begin processing applications for general housing allowance and housing allowance for pensioners for next year in mid-December at the earliest. The applications can be processed once all of the information needed to determine the amount of the allowance is available.
Kela will not have access to all the information that affects the amount of the benefits until December:
- The Government has proposed legislative amendments to the housing allowances, and the amendments are intended to enter into force on 1 January 2025. The proposed amendments are still being reviewed by Parliament.
Read more about the planned changes to general housing allowance.
Read more about the planned changes to housing allowance for pensioners. - In addition to the changes outlined above, the housing allowances available from Kela are also affected by a number of other benefits, the rates of which may also change as of the beginning of 2025.
You can check the status of your application in OmaKela (available in Finnish and Swedish). In the e-service, you can check when your application was received by Kela, whether it has been processed, how much housing allowance you have been granted, and when the next payment date is.
The calculator for the general housing allowance on Kela’s website will be updated in mid-December. The calculator for the housing allowance for pensioners (available in Finnish and Swedish) will be updated on 1 January 2025. Once the calculators have been updated, you can check how much housing allowance you could get in 2025.