The controller’s responsibility will be extended in 2027: Private individuals will have the right to request the correction of their personal data
6/17/2026A legislative amendment entering into force on 4 January 2027 will give the data subject – i.e. a private individual – the right to request the correction of their Incomes Register data, the restriction of processing, or both.
The change will also affect payers and data users. In this news item, we will explain in more detail what will change in January 2027.
Private individuals: If a payer does not correct errors in your data, you can ask the Incomes Register to investigate the matter
If you notice that your data in the Incomes Register are incorrect or that wages, fees, pensions or benefits paid to you are missing from the register, please ask the payer to either correct the data or send them to the Incomes Register. This is usually the fastest and easiest way to remedy the situation.
You can also ask the Incomes Register to investigate the matter:
- You can send the controller, i.e. the Incomes Register Unit, a request for clarification stating which of your data are incorrect or missing. Please also explain how the data should be corrected and why.
- You also have the right to request the correction of data, the restriction of processing, or both. The requests do not suspend or prevent the disclosure of data to data users.
How to submit a request
You can only submit requests concerning your own data, such as personal data, reported income or employment relationship data.
If you want the Incomes Register to investigate errors or omissions in your data, please submit a request for clarification to the Incomes Register Unit:
- Upon request, the Incomes Register will verify the accuracy of the data with the payer.
- In the request for clarification, please state which of your data are incorrect or missing.
- Please also explain how the data should be corrected and why.
- More details on how to submit a request for clarification will be provided during 2026.
You also have the right to request the correction of data, the restriction of processing, or both.
- This request can be submitted via the e-service or using a paper form.
- If you want the Incomes Register Unit to verify the accuracy of the data with the payer, please request a correction of data.
- If you want the Incomes Register Unit to also inform the organisations and public authorities that use Incomes Register data of your request, please request a restriction of data processing.
- If your request concerns incorrect data in the Incomes Register:
- Please use the Personal income data search to find the report containing the incorrect data.
- The report includes a feature that allows you to dispute one or more pieces of information stated in the wage or benefits payment report.
- The disputed information may include personal data, reported income or information on an employment relationship.
- At the same time, you can also inform the register if any required information, such as payments made to you on the payment date in question, has been omitted from the report.
- At the end, select whether your request concerns the correction of data, the restriction of processing, or both.
- If your request concerns wages, fees, pensions or benefits paid to you that are missing entirely from the Incomes Register:
- Please fill in the details in a separate view in the e-service.
- At the end, select whether your request concerns the correction of data, the restriction of processing, or both.
How are requests processed?
If you have submitted a request for clarification, we will verify the accuracy of the data with the payer.
If you have submitted a request regarding data, we will record the request in the Incomes Register and begin processing the matter:
- If you have requested the correction of data, we will verify the accuracy of the data with the payer and resolve the correction request.
- If you have requested the restriction of data processing, we will inform data users of the request as well.
You can monitor the progress of your request in the e-service. You can read messages and documents related to the matter, as well as any requests for additional information from the Incomes Register Unit, in the Messages and documents view. You can also reply to our requests for more information in the same view.
If you are using the Suomi.fi service, a Suomi.fi message will be sent to your own Suomi.fi mailbox regarding any messages received in the e-service. 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.
Payer: When you receive a request for clarification, check and correct the data
As a payer, you are still responsible for data that you submit to the Incomes Register.
You are obliged to report and correct data. If you do not comply with this obligation – i.e., you do not correct or report data despite requests to do so – the Incomes Register may impose a conditional fine on you. Conditional fines are imposed to ensure that the reporting obligation is fulfilled.
A private individual can submit a request to the Incomes Register for either clarification or data correction. In both cases, we will verify the accuracy of the data with the payer.
If we receive a request for clarification, we will also send a request for clarification to the payer:
- Please reply to the request for clarification and make any necessary corrections to the data you have submitted to the Incomes Register.
If we receive a correction request, we will also send a correction request to the payer:
- In the correction request, we will specify which data the income earner has disputed.
- You will also receive a correction request reference.
- Please correct the data and add the correction request reference to the corrected report, so that corrections can be linked to the appropriate correction request and the matter can be processed efficiently.
To see the specific information disputed in the correction request, you can also use the Submitted reports search function in the e-service.
Entries can only be included in wage reports or benefits payment reports. Because an employer’s separate reports are not specific to an income earner, requests concerning them cannot be lodged.
Enable Suomi.fi messages and authorise the necessary persons to represent the company
As a company’s representative, you will be able to read messages and documents related to the matter, such as requests for clarification and correction requests as well as their replies, in the e-service’s Messages and documents view. You can also reply to our messages in the same view, when a reply is expected.
We recommend that your company enable Suomi.fi messages and authorise the necessary persons to represent the company. 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.
For any messages received in the e-service, we will send a Suomi.fi message to 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 you are using the e-service on behalf of a company, you may need a separate authorisation.
Data user: Ensure that your organisation can receive and react to triggers and disputation flags
After a private individual sends us a request to restrict the processing of their data and the request has been saved in the Incomes Register, we will also inform data users of the request.
In such cases, a trigger and disputation flags will be generated for the wage or benefits payment report being disputed. The organisations using the Incomes Register data must themselves determine how they react to triggers and disputation flags in the reports.
A trigger in the report indicates that the income earner has flagged a piece of information in the report as incorrect or missing. The information in question, such as personal data, reported income or employment relationship information, will be marked with a disputation flag.
Data users can only see those triggers and disputation flags linked to data that the data users are authorised to receive from the Incomes Register.
The triggers are automatically shared with data users in the API and the e-service.
- If the data user retrieves the data from the Incomes Register via the API, the organisation can determine whether the details are always included in extractions or extracted separately based on triggers.
- If the data user retrieves data from the Incomes Register’s e-service, triggers and disputation flags will be visible in each report.
When a payer has corrected a disputed piece of information, the Incomes Register Unit makes a decision on the correction request. If the correction is sufficient, the disputation flag is removed entirely.
In certain situations – for example, if the payer cannot be reached at all – the Incomes Register Unit can also correct data. In such cases, the data are permanently flagged as having been corrected by the Incomes Register.
If a private individual's request to restrict the processing of data concerns reports that are missing entirely from the Incomes Register, the request is distributed in the Missing earnings payment report or Missing benefit payment report data in the API. Data can also be retrieved from the e-service.
Testing the changes
Data users can test the distribution of disputation flags for earnings payment report and benefits payment report in the Incomes Register's testing environment.
- Testing can commence when the testing contact person has been informed of the execution of the data permission.
- An income earner’s test ID that is suitable for using the services can be used to dispute the reported data and to request the processing of the data to be restricted and/or the data to be rectified.
Distributing information on missing reports will be ready for testing later in the summer.
Payers may test the provision of correction request references.
- This requires a correction request created by the Incomes Register Unit.
- Test cases can be requested using specific test forms.
The technical documentation related to the changes has been published on the Documentation page
Previously on this subject
Information session for commercial software vendors (21.5.2026), pdf