Wed, 11 Jun, 2014 12:09:25 AM FTimes-STT Report, June 11  Essi Rentola, Jukka Ahtela and Social Affairs and Health minister Paula Risikko presented the review of social security system at a press conference in Helsinki on Tuesday. Photo – Lehtikuva. No major changes are required in the country’s social security system, but the country should take an active role in the reform of the social security harmonisation in the European Union, says a report of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
The ministry in the report reviewed harmonisation of the country’s residence-based social security with the EU requirements.
The right to social security in Finland is based on permanent residence. On the other hand, according to the EU, a person’s social-security right should be guaranteed by the country in which one works.
This lack of clarity has raised questions whether people who work in the country for a short while are entitled to social security or not.
According to the report, no radical change in the country’s social security system is necessary, but it can be harmonised with the EU requirements.
The rapporteurs also recommended that the country should take an active role in the reform of the social security harmonisation in the EU.
There was also no evidence of welfare tourism which entails widespread abuse of the welfare system by EU citizens.
Social Affairs and Health Minister Paula Risikko said she will launch a reform of the Act on the Application of Residence-Based Social Security Legislation in autumn.
The act determines a person’s right to social security.
“The act must clearly state which benefits are based on residence and which ones are based on working in Finland,” said Risikko in a statement.
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