Annual changes 2025: next year, you can apply for Kela’s partial sickness allowance and compensation for annual leave costs in the Incomes Register
7/8/2024You can already apply for the following Kela benefits payable to employers through the Incomes Register, provided that the wage payer has a Business ID:
- sickness allowance;
- rehabilitation allowance;
- parental allowances; and
- family leave compensation.
From the start of 2025, you can also apply for partial sickness allowance and compensation for annual leave costs.
The application is submitted by using the earnings payment report. The earnings payment report schema and processing rule changes required for this will be implemented as annual changes.
In the autumn, we will collaborate with Kela and Statistics Finland to organise a training event in Finninsh on reporting absence data and employment relationship data. News on the training will be posted to our upcoming events page (in Finnish).
See our instructions for reporting absences and submitting Kela reimbursement applications
Other changes relevant to reporters of earnings payment data
Two new processing rules will be added for earnings payment reports:
- The code for the income type of the payment to be recovered must be valid partly or entirely during all of the original pay periods or on all original payment dates. This means that, in future, it will not be possible to erroneously report a recovery with an income type code that could not have been used for the original reported pay period. Use the actual income type of the payment for recovery.
- A Finnish or non-Finnish personal identity code can no longer be erroneously entered as the accident insurance provider identifier. Always report a Business ID as the company identifier for Finnish insurance companies. If the occupational accident insurance company you use does not have a Finnish identifier, report its non-Finnish identifier.
The new processing rule for accident insurance provider identifiers also applies to employer’s separate reports.
Changes relevant for reporters of benefits payment data: changes to income types and two new processing rules
Income types ‘1092 Government member’s pension’ and ‘1328 Survivors’ pension (journalist pension)’ have been removed as unnecessary.
In addition, income types 1130, 1131, 1134, 1125, 1126 and 1124 will be replaced with new more specific income types:
- 1433 Daily allowance, an accident during working time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1434 Daily allowance, an accident during leisure time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1435 Rehabilitation allowance, an accident during working time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1436 Rehabilitation allowance, an accident during leisure time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1437 Compensation for loss of earnings to a family member who joins in adjustment training, an accident during working time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1438 Compensation for loss of earnings to a family member who joins in adjustment training, an accident during leisure time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1439 Compensation for pay for a period of physical treatment, an accident during working time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1440 Compensation for pay for a period of physical treatment, an accident during leisure time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1441 Compensation for pay for a period of examination, an accident during working time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1442 Compensation for pay for a period of examination, an accident during leisure time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1443 Occupational accident pension, an accident during working time (occupational accident insurance)
- 1444 Occupational accident pension, an accident during leisure time (occupational accident insurance)
Two new processing rules will be added for benefits payment reports:
- The code for the income type of the benefit payment to be recovered or the unprompted refund must be partly or entirely valid during the original payment period or on the original payment date. This means that, in future, it will not be possible to erroneously report a recovery with an income type code that could not have been used for the original reported payment period. Use the actual income type of the payment for recovery.
- In future, a substitute recipient’s address must always be entered in the interface as well.
Changes relevant for data users
In future, the income types for benefits can be excluded from the data to be distributed based on the ‘Taxability of benefit’ value.
In future, in addition to the period, payer and income earner identifiers must also be entered as mandatory search terms when data is searched for in the e-service using certain data user roles. In addition, reports on users’ logs have been made more specific.
Read more about the already known annual changes for 2025
See the 2025 technical instructions on our Documentation page
The changes apply when the income payment date is 1 January 2025 or later. In December, we will arrange a customer briefing where the changes taking effect at the start of the year will be reviewed.