File photo. In spite of employment gains, high housing costs have pushed many low income-earners in the Helsinki area to rely on basic income support. Last year national benefits agency Kela paid out slightly less in income support than in 2018. However the decline is likely to be only temporary, as insecure jobs and the high cost of housing suggest that social assistance payments will rise once more.
Many unemployed persons depend on the income subsidy to make ends meet. But low-income earners increasingly lean on it to get by.
According to Kela data, last year the agency forked out 698 […]
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