At the TE Office, you can find out whether you are an entrepreneur as defined in the Unemployment Benefits Act. If you are, the next step is to check whether your business activities or your self-employment at your company has ended. If both of these conditions are fulfilled, you are entitled to the unemployment benefit after registering as an unemployed jobseeker.
You are considered an entrepreneur if you are a private trader or a full-time light entrepreneur who has taken out the YEL or MYEL insurance, or if you run a limited company or another company form on your own.
The unemployment benefit can be a daily allowance or labour market subsidy paid by Kela or earnings-related unemployment allowance paid by the https://yrittajakassa.fi/en/home/. Additionally, to get unemployment benefits, you need meet the work requirement.
For entrepreneurs, the work requirement is met when they have worked for at least 15 months as an entrepreneur during the previous four years. You can calculate the entrepreneurs’ work requirement with the help of a calculator provided by Kela (in Finnish).
Unemployment benefits for entrepreneurs
https://www.suomi.fi/company/starting-a-business/entrepreneurs-everyday-life-and-livelyhood/guide/securing-entrepreneurs-livelihood/unemployment-benefits-for-entrepreneurs
The entrepreneur and unemployment security
https://www.te-palvelut.fi/en/jobseekers/if-unemployed/unemployment-security/entrepreneur-unemployment-security
Part-time self-employment
https://www.tyj.fi/en/if-you-become-unemployed/self-employment-and-unemployment-benefits/