Unemployment Fund - 11.08.2020 klo 09.00

The worst avalanche of applications to the Unemployment Fund has now been reversed

Ilkka Nissilä, Unemployment Fund Director, estimates that the Fund’s performance during the corona crisis in the spring was commendable.

Unemployment Fund - 07.07.2020 klo 10.25

The amount of first applications remained unchanged - applications for earnings-related daily allowance are being processed intensively

Last week, the Unemployment Fund received 1455 new applications for earnings-related daily allowance, more than 1 574 were processed. There is still a large number of applications in the work queues, which means that processing times are still long.

Unemployment Fund - 02.07.2020 klo 14.15

The Unemployment Fund's allowance application queues are gradually decreasing - last week a total of 1976 first applications were processed

The flood of applications has been resolved, but there is still enough work to dismantle the queues.

Unemployment Fund - 25.06.2020 klo 08.00

PAM to help members experiencing long delays for unemployment allowance

To help those members experiencing long delays for allowances, PAM will provide food assistance.

Unemployment Fund - 22.06.2020 klo 14.40

The number of applications to the unemployment fund decreased only slightly

Last week, the Unemployment Fund received slightly fewer applications than in previous weeks. The flood of applications has been resolved, but processing times are still long.

Unemployment Fund - 09.06.2020 klo 15.00

Last week the Unemployment Fund received around 2143 new earnings-related unemployment allowance applications, over 2 240 were processed

For the time being, the processing time for incoming first unemployment allowance applications to the Unemployment Fund is 45 working days.

Unemployment Fund - 01.06.2020 klo 14.20

Processing time for submitted earnings-related unemployment allowance applications shortened

The processing time for earnings-related unemployment allowance applications is currently 26 working days for first applications arriving to PAM’s Unemployment Fund. The time is still long, but much shorter than the week before.

Unemployment Fund - 27.05.2020 klo 12.00

PAM Unemployment Fund adopts robot to speed up processing of unemployment applications

The coronavirus pandemic has had a big impact at the Unemployment Fund of Service Union United PAM. In April alone, Union members sent in more first applications for unemployment allowance than they did in all of 2019. The Unemployment Fund has now adopted a robot to help process the backlog of applications.

Unemployment Fund - 25.05.2020 klo 13.20

Last week the Unemployment Fund received around 2190 new earnings-related unemployment allowance applications, over 2480 were processed

We are publishing the Unemployment Fund’s application and processing numbers weekly.

Unemployment Fund - 19.05.2020 klo 15.49

There are interruptions in the Unemployment Fund's services: the archive of applications submitted is not working at the moment

We have discovered an error in the archive for applications and we are doing our best to correct it. The other e-services are functioning normally and you can send your application for unemployment benefits as usual through our e-services.