Details of legal-advice services for members of Finland’s artist associations can be found on the Web page ‘How to live on visual arts’. The legal counsel of th...
An artist can be awarded grants for various purposes. He or she might be awarded, for example, a working grant for covering the cost of living or a travel grant...
Receiving a grant and the end of a grant period may have an effect on an artist’s unemployment benefits.
Beginning unemployment after a grant period
Working ...
An artist can take out pension insurance in accordance with the Self-employed Persons' Pension Act if he or she carries out artistic work with an intent to prof...
Grant recipients take out their MYEL pension insurance from the Farmers' Social Insurance Institution (Mela).
The insurance obligation applies to all people of...
An artist’s pension security can be composed of national pension, guaranteed pension, earnings-related pension, and supplementary state artist pension amounts.
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On separate application, an artist may be granted a supplementary state artist pension. The artist pension can be granted for exceptional pursuits in the art to...
An artist’s ability to work can be weakened for many reasons. When working to secure a reasonable income is prevented by illness, fault, or disability, an artis...
A person who is employed full-time is not eligible for basic unemployment allowance. But a person employed part-time may have the right to receive an adjusted b...
