Government bills52
- HE 206/2018 vpPassed with amendments
Improving basic security and parental allowances
The minimum sickness and parental allowances, rehabilitation allowances and the guarantee pension will be increased, and the annual ceiling on medicine expenses will be lowered. At the same time, the rights of single parents, adoptive parents and multiple-birth families to parental allowances will be improved.
20 Dec 2018 · 19 votesClosest vote · 3. lakiehdotus, 35 §, mietintö / Anneli Kiljunen
96 jaa87 ei - HE 91/2018 vpPassed
Streamlining reimbursement decisions for biosimilars
The director of the Pharmaceuticals Pricing Board will be able to decide on the reimbursement status and wholesale price of biosimilar medicines without consideration at a board meeting. At the same time, the composition requirements for the board's expert group will be amended.
21 Nov 2018 · passed without a vote - HE 77/2018 vpPassed with amendments
Focusing occupational healthcare reimbursements on prevention
Kela reimbursements for occupational healthcare will be amended so that financial support is targeted more strongly toward preventive work instead of medical care. At the same time, the reimbursement rate for preventive occupational healthcare will be harmonised at 60 per cent for everyone.
21 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 199/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Lowering employers' health insurance contributions
Employers' health insurance contributions will be lowered in line with the Competitiveness Pact, and the state will assume responsibility for a larger share of health insurance costs. In addition, wage earners and self-employed persons earning less than 14,000 euros a year will be exempted from the health insurance daily allowance contribution.
9 Nov 2016 · 4 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Anneli Kiljunen
88 jaa53 ei - HE 171/2016 vpPassed
Direct occupational healthcare reimbursement for entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs will be able to have Kela's occupational healthcare reimbursement paid directly to a private service provider without applying for it retrospectively. In addition, information that the annual copayment ceiling for Kela taxis has been reached will be transmitted electronically to dispatch centres immediately.
7 Nov 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 29/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Harmonising taxation and tax collection procedures
Procedures for reporting, paying and appealing self-assessed taxes will be harmonised, and electronic communication will become the general rule. At the same time, time limits for tax adjustments will be shortened and thresholds for less frequent filing by small businesses will be raised.
8 Jul 2016 · 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 105/2015 vpPassed with amendments
Cutting sickness and parental allowances
Sickness allowances and rehabilitation allowances for people earning more than 30,000 euros a year will be reduced. At the same time, the increased compensation rate for the first 30 weekdays of parental allowances will be abolished.
18 Dec 2015 · 4 votesClosest vote · 11 luvun 10 a §, mietintö / Kristiina Salonen
115 jaa66 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