Government bills21
- HE 70/2024 vpPassed
Tightening funding for wellbeing services counties
The rules governing central government funding for wellbeing services counties will be amended by introducing a graduated deductible to the retrospective adjustment and by taking changes in the level of client fees into account in the funding in advance. The amendments aim to encourage wellbeing services counties to curb the growth of costs.
13 Dec 2024 · 6 votes99 jaa70 ei - HE 36/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Cheaper private doctors for over-65s
People aged 65 and over will be able to see a private general practitioner for the price of a public health centre client fee, and half the cost of examinations prescribed during the visit will be reimbursed. The amendment aims to speed up access to care for older people and reduce the burden on public primary healthcare.
19 Jun 2025 · 6 votes100 jaa84 ei - HE 73/2023 vpPassed with amendments
Tightening unemployment benefit conditions
The work requirement needed to qualify for unemployment allowance will be extended by six months and will begin to accrue based on paid wage income rather than hours worked. In addition, the child increases to unemployment benefits and the exempt amount for part-time work income will be abolished, the waiting period at the start of unemployment will be extended, and holiday compensation will postpone the start of the benefit.
20 Dec 2023 · 9 votes99 jaa47 ei - HE 119/2025 vpPassed
Increasing unemployment insurance contributions
Unemployment insurance contributions for employees and employers will rise at the beginning of 2026. The increases will ensure that the Employment Fund has sufficient funds to finance unemployment benefits.
28 Nov 2025 · 1 voteOnly vote · Proposed statement
159 jaa8 ei - HE 129/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Raising initial deductible for medicine reimbursements
The annual initial deductible for prescription medicine reimbursements will increase from 50 euros to 70 euros from the beginning of 2025 and will in future be tied to the national pension index. At the same time, pharmacies will be required to keep in stock and always offer customers the lowest-priced medicine option.
9 Dec 2024 · 3 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Hanna-Leena Mattila
103 jaa79 ei - HE 150/2024 vpPassed
Lowering unemployment insurance contributions
Unemployment insurance contributions for employees and employers will decrease at the beginning of 2025. The change will reduce deductions made from employees' pay and lower employers' labour costs.
29 Nov 2024 · 1 voteOnly vote · 1. lakiehdotuksen johtolause, mietintö / Ville Merinen
111 jaa54 ei - HE 108/2024 vpPassed
Easing labour taxation and cutting deductions
Income taxation for 2025 will be amended by easing the taxation of labour and cutting several deductions. Taxation for low-income wage earners and families with children will ease, whereas taxation for pensioners with middle-tier incomes will tighten and the amount of the household expenses tax credit will decrease.
22 Nov 2024 · 9 votesClosest vote · Valiokunnan ehdotus / Krista Mikkonen
96 jaa68 ei - HE 57/2023 vpPassed
Limiting the medicine ceiling increase
The increase in the annual out-of-pocket maximum for medicine expenses, or the medicine ceiling, will be limited from the start of 2024. The change prevents index increases from accumulating into a single year as a result of the 2023 freeze.
29 Nov 2023 · 1 voteOnly vote · 8 §, mietintö / Ilmari Nurminen
86 jaa68 ei - HE 240/2021 vpPassed
Temporarily waiving the unemployment waiting period
Unemployment benefit will be paid to people who become unemployed or are laid off immediately from the first day, without a five-day waiting period. In addition, the adjustment of business income will be temporarily facilitated.
28 Jan 2022 · 3 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Mia Laiho 2
69 jaa40 ei - HE 113/2016 vpPassed
Shortening the duration of unemployment allowance
The maximum duration of unemployment allowance would be shortened and the waiting period extended from five to seven days. In addition, increased components of unemployment security would be reduced or abolished.
21 Nov 2016 · 3 votes100 jaa47 ei - HE 106/2015 vpPassed with amendments
Cutting health insurance reimbursements and copayments
Health insurance reimbursements for medicines, travel and medical care will be cut, and the copayments paid by clients will be increased. In addition, temporary additional fees will be imposed on operators in the pharmaceutical sector for 2016.
22 Dec 2015 · 5 votes114 jaa71 ei - HE 94/2020 vpPassed with amendments
Extending exceptional unemployment security rules
Temporary easings to unemployment security introduced due to the coronavirus pandemic will be extended until the end of 2020. Unemployment benefit will be paid without a waiting period immediately from the first day, the employment condition will remain shortened, and the consumption of daily allowance days will be suspended.
24 Jun 2020 · passed without a vote - HE 38/2020 vpPassed
Temporarily improving unemployment security
Unemployment benefits will be paid from the very start of unemployment or lay-off without a five-day waiting period. In addition, the work requirement for receiving earnings-related daily allowance will be halved, and lay-offs will not count towards the maximum duration of the daily allowance.
9 Apr 2020 · 1 voteOnly vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Mia Laiho
30 jaa11 ei - HE 41/2019 vpPassed
Lowering unemployment insurance contributions for 2020
Unemployment insurance contributions for employees and employers will be lowered for 2020. At the same time, the maximum size of the Employment Fund's business cycle buffer will be increased to smooth out economic fluctuations.
20 Nov 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 161/2018 vpPassed
Lowering unemployment insurance contributions in 2019
Unemployment insurance contributions for 2019 will be lowered for both employees and employers. The employee contribution will fall to 1.5 per cent and the employer's lower contribution to 0.5 per cent of payroll.
29 Nov 2018 · passed without a vote - HE 124/2017 vpPassed with amendments
Introducing the unemployment activation model
Unemployment benefit will decrease by 4.65 per cent if an unemployed person does not work sufficiently or participate in employment services during a three-month monitoring period. At the same time, the waiting period at the start of unemployment will be shortened from seven days to five days.
22 Dec 2017 · 5 votes103 jaa90 ei - HE 141/2017 vpPassed with amendments
Improving entrepreneur benefits and minimum allowances
The waiting period for sickness allowance for entrepreneurs insured under the Self-Employed Persons' Pensions Act (YEL) will be shortened to one day, and the level of minimum daily allowances under health insurance will be increased. In addition, both parents will be able to receive special care allowance simultaneously during terminal care of a child.
19 Dec 2017 · passed without a vote - HE 152/2015 vpPassed
Reforming athletes' pension and accident coverage
The upper age limit for the obligation to insure professional athletes will rise from 43 to 65 years, and the old-age pension age will be linked to the general earnings-related pension age. At the same time, overlapping sickness allowance and accident compensation for farmers will be curtailed.
17 Mar 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 145/2015 vpPassed with amendments
Tightening annual holiday and illness rules
Annual holiday accrual from family leave will be limited, and a six-day qualifying period will be introduced for falling ill during annual holiday before leave can be postponed. However, employees will always be guaranteed an annual holiday of at least four weeks.
11 Mar 2016 · 3 votes94 jaa47 ei - HE 128/2015 vpPassed with amendments
Halving medicine reimbursement savings in 2016
Planned savings in medicine reimbursements for 2016 would be reduced from 50 million euros to 25 million euros. The savings would be divided equally between increases in medicine users' copayments and fees levied on pharmaceutical sector businesses.
15 Dec 2015 · passed without a vote