Discretionary expense allowance

Employment authority may grant you discretionary expense allowance when you participate in a service that supports your employment as agreed in your employment plan or a plan replacing it. You can receive compensation from the employment authority if you incur inevitable costs for participating in a service and you do not receive unemployment security from Kela or an unemployment fund.

Expense allowance can be paid for your participation in

• labour market training
• work try-out
• training try-out
• career coaching
• job search coaching
• independent study as an integration client.

Expense allowance is usually nine euros per day. You can receive expense allowance for up to five days a week and only for those days when you participate in the agreed service. Expense allowance is not paid for holidays or absences, for example.

The expense allowance is 18 euros a day if the service is provided outside your travel-to-work area. The expense allowance is also 18 euros if the service is provided within your travel-to-work area but outside your municipality of residence and you incur accommodation expenses.