Exemption from membership fees
You can apply for membership fee exemption if you have no earned income, e.g., because you:
- receive cash rehabilitation benefit or rehabilitation allowance (fixed-term disability pension) as prescribed in employment legislation
- are on maternity, paternity or parental leave
- are on child-care leave/home care allowance (also if you are an adoptive parent)
- are on unpaid sickness leave
- are unemployed and not entitled to a daily allowance from an unemployment fund, but are entitled to unemployment benefit (labour market support or basic unemployment allowance) paid by the Social Insurance Institution (Kela), or are registered with an employment office as a job-seeker
- receive a training allowance from Kela
- are studying
- are doing your compulsory military service or civil service
- are on job alternation leave and receive no benefit from the unemployment fund.
Apply for exemption from the membership fee at your local branch or the union’s Membership Unit.
