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    Kela
    Updated 01.07.2025

    Kela’s vocational rehabilitation

    Kela’s vocational rehabilitation can help you choose a suitable profession, find employment, remain in the workforce or re-enter it despite your illness.
    Service implementation:
    Contact service
    Life situation and service category:
    Challenges with work and functional capacity,
    Support for return to work,
    Work and functional ability assessment
    Service language:
    Finnish
    ,
    Swedish
    Charges:
    The service is free of charge

    Who is the service for?

    You can receive vocational rehabilitation from Kela if you are unemployed, a student or have only been in the workforce for a short amount of time. Vocational rehabilitation is suitable for a situation where your ability to work or study has declined due to an illness or disability.

    Participant’s municipality of residence:
    Municipality of residence does not matter
    Age:
    Kaikille työikäisille

    How can I participate in the service?

    You can apply for vocational rehabilitation through Kela. Read more at kela.fi/vocational-rehabilitation-how-to-apply.

    1. First, see the doctor in charge of your treatment. The doctor will assess your need for rehabilitation, recommend vocational rehabilitation if needed, and write a medical statement B for you.
    2. Fill in the application form for vocational rehabilitation (form KU 101e) and submit it to Kela, including the medical statement B as an attachment. You can find the form online at kela.fi/forms.
    3. You can submit the application form and its attachments by sending a message via the OmaKela e-service. You can see in OmaKela whether your application has been processed. The decision will also be sent in writing by post to your home address. 

    PLEASE NOTE! If you are 16–29 years old and your functional capacity has substantially declined, you can seek vocational rehabilitation without an illness diagnosis or a medical statement. Read more about vocational rehabilitation for young persons.

    Conditions for participating in the service:
    • Your ability to work or study has declined due to an illness or disability.
    • You have a medical statement B in which a doctor recommends vocational rehabilitation. 

    PLEASE NOTE! If you are 16–29 years old and your functional capacity has substantially declined, you can seek vocational rehabilitation without an illness diagnosis or a medical statement.

    Benefits of participating in the service:
    • You will receive help with choosing a profession, finding employment, remaining in the workforce or re-entering it despite your illness.
    • You may be entitled to rehabilitation allowance for the duration of vocational rehabilitation, and Kela will also provide compensation for travel expenses related to the rehabilitation. Read more at kela.fi/rehabilitation-allowance and kela.fi/travel-costs.

    How is the service organised?

    Vocational rehabilitation can be implemented in many ways.  Kela’s vocational rehabilitation provides rehabilitees with various opportunities to enter the workforce. The options range from an assessment of your need for vocational rehabilitation that lasts a few days to multi-year training. 

    Vocational rehabilitation activities are primarily provided in the facilities of a Kela service provider. In some cases, some of the rehabilitation can be implemented in the form of remote rehabilitation days.

    Kela organises the following types of vocational rehabilitation: