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Sickness Allowance

Producer: Social Insurance Institution of Finland
Homepage: http:// www.stat.fi/til/spraha/index_en.html
Main topic: Social Protection
Related topics: Health
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Yes
European Statistical System (ESS): No

Description

All residents of Finland are insured under the Health Insurance Act. Provided they meet the qualifying criteria, they are entitled to sickness allowance as compensation for loss of income resulting from short-term incapacity for work. The statistics on sickness allowances describe the economic security arrangements for employees and self-employed people during unemployment. They examine allowance recipients and expenditures from a variety of perspectives. With certain qualifications, they also describe disease prevalence in the working-age population. Because of the application of a waiting period, only periods of illness exceeding ten days are included in the data.

Keywords

social security, social protection, health insurance, sickness allowance, prevalence of disease

Contact information

http://tilastokeskus.fi/til/spraha/yht_en.html

Last updated 04.06.2021