During its first two years, 23,000 persons (10,300 in 2018) chose to take payment of the partial old-pension. Nearly 90 per cent selected to take out the maximum amount, or half of their earned pension pot. On average, they were paid 790 euros per month. Recent statistics of the Finnish Centre for Pensions reveals that …
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If you have worked or lived abroad, you may be entitled to a pension from that country. The booklet “How to Claim Your Pension from Abroad” guides you when you want to apply for your foreign pension.
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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 …
Each year, the Finnish Centre for Pensions grants a Pro Gradu Award of €2,000 to a quality Master’s thesis accepted at a Finnish university in the previous calendar year.
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According to statistics of the Finnish Centre for Pensions, the number of new disability pension decisions grew considerably in 2018. At the same time, the share of rejected disability pension applications dropped for the first time in a decade.
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