Discretionary expense allowance
Employment services may grant you discretionary expense allowance when you participate in a service that supports your employment as agreed in your employment plan or a plan replacing it. You can receive compensation from the Employment services if you incur inevitable costs for participating in a service and you do not receive unemployment security from Kela or an unemployment fund. Expense allowance can be paid for your participation in - labour market training - work trial - training trial - career coaching - job search coaching - independent study as an integration client. Expense allowance is usually nine euros per day. You can receive expense allowance for up to five days a week and only for those days when you participate in the agreed service. Expense allowance is not paid for holidays or absences, for example. The expense allowance is 18 euros a day if the service is provided outside your labour market region. The expense allowance will also be 18 euros when the service is provided outside Espoo and you have accommodation expenses.