Workers going abroad to work can remain covered by the social security laws and benefits of their home country and avoid extra fees in the country in which they work. They need an A1 certificate for this.
The sharing economy poses a challenge in terms of pension insurance: when is a person working on digital platforms a self-employed person and when an employee? A new website, soon available also in English, offers information on the statutory obligations relating to sharing economy.
The average age of retirement on an earnings-related pension in Finland edged up to 61.3 years in 2018, according to statistics from the Finnish Centre for Pensions. New retirees were one month older than the year before. Overall the number of new retirees on an old-age pension was considerably down from the previous year as …
Urban-dwelling males aged 61 are the most likely to take a partial old-age pension. A recent study by the Finnish Centre for Pensions indicates that the self-employed and unemployed are more likely to take payment of the pension than wage earners.
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