The controller’s responsibility will be extended in 2027: Prepare for the change by testing new features
8/12/2026A legislative amendment entering into force on 4 January 2027 will give the data subject – i.e. a private individual – the right to request the rectification of their Incomes Register data, the restriction of processing, or both.
The change will also affect payers and data users.
Data users: Ensure that your organisation can receive and react to triggers and dispute data
Data users can test the distribution of dispute data for earnings payment reports and benefits payment reports, and of data in reports that are missing entirely, in the Incomes Register’s stakeholder testing environment.
Data can be retrieved via the technical interface or in the e-service. Testing can commence when the testing contact person has been informed of the execution of the data permission and requested the necessary test IDs.
Dispute data is described in the data distribution schemas for earnings payment reports and benefits payment reports. Separate schema documents have been published on missing earnings and benefits payment reports.
For up-to-date distribution documentation, visit our Documentation page: Data distribution
We have implemented examples of reports in the stakeholder testing environment. Read more about the documents on the Documentation of stakeholder testing page:
- Accuracy of data – distribution of dispute data
- Accuracy of data – distribution of data from missing reports
The documents are intended as system development support material for data users. The examples demonstrate the process of distributing the data subject's claims for rectification and restriction of data, and status changes.
Payers: Test sending references of claim for rectification, enable also Suomi.fi messages for companies
Payers must ensure that the reference of claim for rectification can be given in the system they use in connection with correcting of data.
Many software enables the correction of data through a technical interface directly from the payment system to the Incomes Register. Ask your software supplier for more information.
Data can also be corrected in the Incomes Register's e-service.
If it is necessary to test the sending of a reference of claim for rectification, the testing contact person can contact the Incomes Register through the testing contact form.
You will be promptly informed of information requests and claims for rectification when you enable the company’s Suomi.fi mailbox
Once we have received and processed a request from a private individual requesting clarification of the accuracy of the data or a claim for rectification, we will send the payer an information request or a claim for rectification.
As a company representative, you can read these messages in the Messages and documents view of the Incomes Register’s e-service. You can also reply to our messages in the same view, when a reply is expected. Make sure that you check if you need a separate authorisation for acting on behalf of the company.
To ensure that you are notified of the messages received by the company in the e-service, such as information requests and claims for rectification, we recommend that your company enable Suomi.fi messages and authorise the necessary persons to represent the company.
For any messages received in the e-service, we will send a Suomi.fi message to the company’s Suomi.fi mailbox. A company's representative can request that a notification be sent to their own email whenever a Suomi.fi message is received by the company’s Suomi.fi mailbox. You will need to read the actual message in the Incomes Register’s e-service, as Suomi.fi messages will only include the heading of the received message for information security reasons.
If the company does not have a Suomi.fi mailbox, we will send the information requests and claims for rectification by post.
Would you also want to test other annual changes?
The current annual changes have been published in their entirety in the stakeholder testing environment. You can test changes in APIs, the e-service and in the e-service upload service.