Rehabilitation within the earnings-related pension scheme is vocational rehabilitation. People in working life are covered by rehabilitation arranged by authorised pension providers. The purpose of rehabilitation is to promote the opportunities and capacity of employees to continue working, and to prevent incapacity for work or at least delay the onset of disability. Rehabilitation helps with coping at work and it saves pension expenditure.

The Social Insurance Institution Kela arranges vocational rehabilitation especially for people outside working life, young people and people with impaired work capacity. Kela is also responsible for medical rehabilitation. Medical rehabilitation is the approach taken to augment physical, mental or social functional capacity.

Your rehabilitation may be vocational or medical. Vocational rehabilitation means practically every measure designed to improve an employee’s capacity to work. It is paid by the Seafarer’s Pension Fund and other authorised pension providers.

The aim is to start rehabilitation as early as possible. The possibilities for rehabilitation are ascertained in each individual case before a disability pension decision is issued.