Provide the fund with your salary information for at least 12 months that accumulate the employment condition before the lay-off. 

Read more about the employment condition.

In which situations should pay slips be submitted?

The unemployment fund receives your salary information directly from the Incomes Register, but in many cases the information in the Incomes Register is not sufficient to process your daily allowance application.

The Incomes Register does not always provide information on, for example, the length of time during which you have earned your salaries, which is particularly important if your employment condition is met partially for the period before 2 September 2024. In addition, it is not always clear on the basis of the information in the Incomes Register whether the salary includes items that cannot be taken into account when calculating the employment condition. For example, “other paid supplement” shown in the Incomes Register is the kind of pay item for which we always need more detailed information.

Read more about the information available from the Incomes Register.
 

• An employment contract for all employment relationships that continue during the period of lay-off or unemployment (including the one from which you were laid off).
• Notice of lay-off.
• Pay slips for all salaries paid during the period of lay-off or unemployment.
• Pay slip for the month of the lay-off, if you received salary for even one day during the lay-off month. We need the actual pay slip, because the Incomes Register does not usually show the deduction made from your salary due to the lay-off.
• The tax decision of your latest confirmed taxation, if you or a member of your family runs a business or has income from agriculture or forestry during your period of lay-off or unemployment. You can find the tax decision in electronic format in the Tax Administration’s MyTax service.
• The decision on the pension or other benefit you received during the period of lay-off and the most recent statement of the amount of the benefit. (A decision is not required for the following benefits: housing allowance, child benefit and income support.)

The fund will also need your tax card to pay your daily allowance. Read more about the tax card.

If your salary is not fully linked to working time (e.g. commission-based work, invoicing, etc.), your entitlement to benefit must be examined in more detail. 

• In addition to your contract of employment, attach to your application also a statement from your employer stating how much of your pay was already based on working time before the lay-off and how much was based on commission. 
• In addition, provide a statement from your employer that your working hours are monitored. 

During a reduced working week lay-off (i.e. when you work only part of the week and not the whole calendar week), your entitlement to daily allowance, for example in commission-paid work, depends on the extent to which the reduction in working time and salary can be said to have taken place in the same proportion.

• pay slip for the month of the lay-off, if you received salary for even one day during the lay-off month
• pay slips for all wages paid during the application period, if you work for an employer other than the one that laid you off
• an employment contract, if you start a new employment during the period of lay-off.