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Current issues

2.2.2026 News

2025 Pro Gradu Award up for grabs

Each year, the Finnish Centre for Pensions grants a Pro Gradu Award of €2,000 to a quality Master’s thesis accepted at a Finnish university in the previous calendar year. Applications for the 2025 Pro Gradu Award should be submitted by 13 March 2026.

20.1.2026 News

Read about Finnish pensions also in Northern Sámi – check out the range of materials we offer in multiple languages

You can now find information on earnings-related pensions in an increasing number of languages. In addition to materials in English, Finnish, Swedish, Estonian and Russian, we now also offer pension information in Northern Sámi.

More news

Blogs

15.8.2025 Arie Riekhoff

Addressing financial hardship throughout the life course can improve pension adequacy

Our latest study shows that experiencing financial problems during the early and mid-life course does not necessarily bear negative consequences for one’s pension income in old age. However, a better understanding of the connections between economic wellbeing in earlier and later life helps in shaping better policies for ageing societies.

8.5.2025 Monika Sievänen

Who is considered an employee and who is self-employed?

Many people are unclear about how employment should be insured. The situation is clear from the point of view of earnings-related pension law: people who carry out work for pay are insured either as employees or as self-employed.

Earlier blog posts

Themes

Developing the pension system for the self-employed (YEL)

The independent assessor appointed by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs has outlined how the pension system for the self-employed needs to be developed and what the problems are relating to the current way of establishing the confirmed incomes of the self-employed. The report includes alternative solutions to this problem. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health published the report on 5 December 2025. Read more on Etk.fi.

  • Developing the pension system for the self-employed (YEL)

Reforming earnings-related pensions

The final report of the tripartite working group was published on 31 January 2025. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has begun the legislative drafting process. We have compiled data on the themes relating to the pension reform. The website 2025 Pension reform contains information on, for example, the pension reform working groups.

  • 2025 Pension reform
  • Q&A on the 2025 pension reform (Työeläke.fi)

News and press releases

2.2.2026 News

2025 Pro Gradu Award up for grabs

20.1.2026 News

Read about Finnish pensions also in Northern Sámi – check out the range of materials we offer in multiple languages

17.12.2025 Press releases

How earnings-related pensions will change in 2026

15.12.2025 Press releases

Growth in pensioners’ employment has stalled

11.12.2025 News

Ageing populations challenge pensions – three trends in paradigmatic pension reforms 

On pensions elsewhere

3.2.2026 Telp.fi

Yleistuki korvaa Kelan työttömyystuet – Osittaisella vanhuuseläkkeellä vaikutus yleistuen määrään

23.1.2026 Telp.fi

Muutoksia työeläkkeiden laskuperusteisiin vuonna 2026

20.1.2026 Telp.fi

Vuoden 2025 osaketuottokerroin on 13,30 prosenttia

19.1.2026 Telp.fi

Uusi sähköinen BC-lääkärinlausunto nopeuttaa työeläkehakemusten käsittelyä

18.1.2026 Ilta-Sanomat

Heikki, 80, jatkaa yhä työn tekoa – näin saat työstä lisärahaa eläkkeellä

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