Disability benefits: Number of recipients and amount of benefit

NIT147A

Theme

Disability benefits

Data content

Recipients of disability benefits and average amount of benefit (EUR/month/recipient).

Recipients include persons who have been paid benefits for and during the reference month. The average amount of benefit represents the arithmetic mean of benefit payments for and during the reference month. Retrospective payments for the period preceding the reference month are not included in the mean.

Variables and classifications

• Benefit category (Disability allowance for children under the age of 16, Disability allowance for persons aged 16 or over, Care allowance for pensioners, Dietary grant)
• Type of benefit (Basic rate of allowance, Middle rate of allowance, Highest rate of allowance, Grandfathered allowance).

  Grandfathered allowances consist of care allowances for pensioners paid out until 1 July 1988 as either smaller or larger helplessness supplements and of disability allowances paid out under the legislation in effect until 1 January 1989. These allowances are paid at their existing rates even if they otherwise would have been reduced or discontinued as a result of the legislative changes.

• Time period (End of year and month)
• Geographical focus
• Sex
• Age group (0–4 years, 5–9 years, …, 95–99 years, over 99 years)

Period of statistics

Data available since 2008. Monthly data available for the current and two preceding years.

Updating frequency

Updated monthly. Annual data updated in January.

Data source

Kela – The Social Insurance Institution of Finland. Statistical registers (total material) produced from the disability benefits processing system.

Additional information

Additional information on disability benefits is available at www.kela.fi under Our Services » Disability and at the same address under About Kela » Statistics » Statistics by topic » Disability benefits provided by Kela

Contact information

Kela, Statistical Information Service
Email: tilastot@kela.fi