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- HE 108/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Tightening job search obligations and sanctions
Meetings for jobseekers in the employment services will be made more flexible, and applying for jobs referred by the authorities will become immediately mandatory. At the same time, unemployment security sanctions will be tightened so that entitlement to benefits will be lost for a fixed period as early as the first failure to comply.
16 Dec 2025 · 5 votes112 jaa48 ei - HE 213/2026 vpIn progress
Reforming compulsory education and secondary admissions
Compulsory education can in future also be completed temporarily at a youth workshop if a study place is not found immediately. In addition, young people subject to compulsory education will be given priority in upper secondary student admissions in the joint application system.
8 Oct 2026 · no votes yet - HE 134/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Extending the care guarantee for adults
Waiting times for adults to access non-urgent primary healthcare and dental care will be extended. The existing shorter waiting times will remain in place for children and young people under 23 years of age.
13 Dec 2024 · 5 votes109 jaa56 ei - HE 125/2024 vpPassed
Raising minimum age for Kela benefits
The minimum age for the national pension, guarantee pension, rehabilitation allowance and sickness allowance paid by Kela will rise from 16 to 18 years. The change aligns the age limits for social security benefits with the end of compulsory education and the age at which parents' maintenance liability ends.
22 Nov 2024 · 7 votes113 jaa47 ei - HE 124/2024 vpPassed
Tightening young persons' rehabilitation allowance
The conditions for vocational rehabilitation for young people will be clarified, and rehabilitation allowance will as a rule no longer be paid for the duration of Nuotti coaching. In addition, young persons' rehabilitation allowance will become subject to a needs test during educational institution holiday periods, and earned income will begin to reduce the benefit paid.
22 Nov 2024 · 3 votes114 jaa48 ei - HE 60/2023 vpPassed
Cutting youth and vocational rehabilitation allowances
The rehabilitation allowance for young people and the rehabilitation allowance paid during vocational rehabilitation provided by Kela will be reduced. Their minimum amount and calculation method will be aligned with sickness allowance.
14 Dec 2023 · 2 votes100 jaa75 ei - HE 131/2024 vpPassed
Therapy guarantee for children and young people
Children and young people under the age of 23 will be guaranteed rapid and free access to short-term psychotherapy or other psychosocial treatment and support for mental health in primary-level services. Treatment or social welfare support must be started no later than 28 days or one month after the need has been identified.
17 Dec 2024 · 10 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Anna Kontula 3
111 jaa57 ei - HE 70/2022 vpLapsed
Stricter driving licence conditions for 17-year-olds
Seventeen-year-olds could obtain a passenger car driving licence with a guardian's consent without a separate exemption. However, the driving rights of underage drivers would be restricted by prohibiting night driving and carrying more than one passenger.
5 Apr 2023 · no votes - HE 30/2021 vpPassed with amendments
Clarifying Teno fishing permits and supervision
The rules on the special fishing permit quota for the Teno river will be specified and free fishing permits will be provided for permanent local residents under 18 years of age. At the same time, fishing permit sales duties and supervision in the fisheries area will be clarified.
22 Apr 2022 · 1 vote90 jaa57 ei - HE 79/2020 vpPassed with amendments
Raising aftercare age for unaccompanied minors
The upper age limit for support measures for young people who arrived in Finland as unaccompanied minors and have been granted a residence permit will rise from 21 to 25. The state will reimburse municipalities for the costs of young people's housing and support services up to the age of 25.
24 Jun 2020 · 1 vote45 jaa10 ei - HE 56/2023 vpPassed with amendments
Lowering child welfare after-care age
The age limit for child welfare after-care will be lowered from 25 to 23 years. At the same time, responsibilities for organising early childhood education and care for children placed in care and the division of costs between municipalities will be clarified.
19 Dec 2023 · 1 voteOnly vote · Käsittelyn pohja, mietintö / Ilmari Nurminen
118 jaa57 ei - HE 128/2020 vpPassed
Cancelling the introduction of light cars
The introduction of speed-limited passenger cars, known as light cars, for young people will be cancelled. Legislation concerning light cars will be repealed before its entry into force because it conflicts with EU law.
20 Oct 2020 · 1 vote32 jaa22 ei - HE 21/2019 vpPassed
Postponing legislation on light cars
The introduction of light cars onto the roads is postponed by one year until 1 November 2020. The postponement will be used to examine whether the regulations can be brought into line with EU law and the driving licence directive.
17 Oct 2019 · 3 votes105 jaa35 ei - HE 173/2018 vpPassed with amendments
Allowing light cars for young people
Young people will have the opportunity to drive a speed-limited passenger car, known as a light car, from the age of 15 with a moped driving licence. The reform aims to improve road safety for young people by offering a safer alternative to mopeds and moped cars.
9 Jan 2019 · 1 vote167 jaa12 ei - HE 107/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Establishing free leisure activities for schoolchildren
The Finnish model for leisure activities aimed at comprehensive school pupils will be enshrined in law, establishing the provision of free leisure activities in connection with the school day. At the same time, the criteria for government grants to youth sector organisations and youth centres will be clarified.
20 Oct 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 71/2019 vpPassed with amendments
Adjusting after-care age limits
The final payout age for child welfare independent living allowance will rise to 25 and the definition of a young person will expand to cover 18–24-year-olds. At the same time, it is clarified that extended after-care applies to children and young people who are receiving support at the start of 2020.
19 Dec 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 83/2023 vpPassed
Facilitating youth mobility with Canada
Finland and Canada will introduce an agreement facilitating opportunities for young people to travel, work and complete traineeships in the other country. Under the arrangement, young people aged 18 to 35 can receive a temporary residence permit for up to one year.
15 Dec 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 206/2022 vpPassed
Working holiday scheme with Japan
Finland and Japan will introduce a reciprocal working holiday scheme for young people. Under the scheme, young people from both countries will be able to stay in the other country for up to a year and fund their holiday by working temporarily.
21 Dec 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 111/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming youth work and youth policy
The new Youth Act will strengthen young people's inclusion and equality in society. At the same time, municipalities will be given more freedom to organise youth work according to their own local needs.
16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 16/2019 vpPassed
Increasing student and youth housing grants
The state will increase the investment grant provided for the construction, acquisition and renovation of rental housing intended for students and young people. The change would increase the supply of affordable small rental flats, especially in growth centres.
7 Oct 2019 · passed without a vote