📋 Tender Overview
The Social Security Committee met for its first autumn meeting on Monday September 5 2022. The members of parliament of the committee want to investigate the possibility of a single basic security benefit. During the fall the financial boundary conditions and prerequisites for unifying and combining basic security benefits on the basis of a cause-based social security system will be clarified.The meeting of the social security committee also discussed the constitutional and legal boundary conditions of the reform as well as the coverage and financing of the Finnish social security system. In addition the meeting started a discussion on the central principles of social security the policies related to which form the guidelines for reforming social security.In the committees discussion questions related to social integration and the prevention of marginalization from the point of view of the obligation of social security and the effects of Finlands weakening dependency ratio on the future of social security and its financing were particularly emphasized.An interim report will be worked on during the fallThe interim report to be published in March 2023 outlines what kind of future social security the committee will start building in the coming parliamentary term. Among the committees members of parliament there was support for combining basic security benefits which the committee will continue to investigate during the fall.The interim report also outlines proposals for reforming the current system for use by the next governments preparers. These proposals will be worked on in committee meetings during the rest of the year.The next social security committee meeting will be held on Monday 26 September 2022.
