Moving with little income

JHDonovan · Post by **JHDonovan** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 7:44 pm

I have a job where I get flown to different parts of the world for a day or two and these jobs usually net me about €500/day. So if I work five days a month for these oversea jobs it would probably be enough but often I do fewer days than that. I also have a steady job that I do locally which wouldn't be possible to do in Finland because the job doesn't exist. Sorry to be cryptic, but it's a specialised job and I don't want to advertise.

By the way, I'm a citizen of Finland so this should prevent some criticism. I don't speak Finnish.

I'm looking to move to Finland. I should have some money coming in from these overseas jobs but probably not much. I also have about €50,000 in savings. Would I be able to get benefits to supplement my income?

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Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:04 pm

Well, in principle if you are a "jobseeker looking for work", but that requires you to sit home on the sofa "being available"... Anything you "do" (and inform to them) subtracts from all that.

betelgeuse · Post by **betelgeuse** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:43 pm

JHDonovan wrote: I'm looking to move to Finland. I should have some money coming in from these overseas jobs but probably not much. I also have about €50,000 in savings. Would I be able to get benefits to supplement my income?

The only category of people not getting any kind of benefits are healthy working people with no kids. Whenever you are doing the €500/day job you will not be able to get benefits since pretty quickly it will reduce the benefits to zero:

http://www.kela.fi/web/en/amount-and-ta ... n-earnings

Pursuivant wrote:Anything you "do" (and inform to them) subtracts from all that.

OP: Remember that not informing the authorities most likely requires doing a tax fraud so I wouldn't recommend it.

JHDonovan · Post by **JHDonovan** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:12 pm

Some months I may not work at all. I understand that they deduct money for any money you earn, though. And I made 700 or so in a month it would bring the total to zero.

What about housing, though? That's surely separate and on top of this 32,66 a day. Although again, it's probably diminished if you make a certain amount of money.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:13 pm

Housing subsidy is perhaps the one that you'd be most likely to be able to claim, but that would be small and uncertain.I guess KELA has some way of handling very irregular incomes, but I do not know what it is.

rinso · Post by **rinso** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:38 am

I think that will mean three years of integration support for you, ie, attending full-time Finnish lessons will be required in order to get Labour Market Subsidy / Integration money (LMS).

By the way, I'm a citizen of Finland so this should prevent some criticism. I don't speak Finnish.

Aren't Finns excluded from integration money?

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sat Aug 23, 2014 3:57 pm

tummansininen wrote:Plus, you can be on the Integration program even if you earn too much for the payments (had one rich "trophy wife" in my class too who didn't get a cent but wanted to learn Finnish).

Under the current rules the LMS does not depend on the family (spouse) income anymore.

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