The Government is proposing a new type of integration assistance

In the future, the general social security benefit would be paid as integration assistance to immigrants registered as unemployed jobseekers who do not meet the prior work requirement or have lived in Finland for less than three years. The aim is to promote immigrants’ employment and language skills.

The proposal suggests amendments to the Act on a General Social Security Benefit, the Act on the Organisation of Employment Services and the Act on the National Certificates of Language Proficiency.

The general social security benefit would be paid as integration assistance to unemployed jobseekers who do not meet the prior work requirement, have lived in Finland for less than three years during the previous ten years and are in need of financial support.

The level of integration assistance would be slightly lower than that of general social security benefit. It would correspond to the basic amount of basic social assistance for a person living alone (EUR 33.64 per day in 2026).

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The new integration allowance would encourage employment and strengthen language skills