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This year’s recipient of the Finnish Centre for Pensions’ Pro Gradu Award is Zamzam Elmi, a Master of Social Sciences graduate. Elmi’s Master’s thesis examines how pension insurance professionals view the potential use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the assessment of disability pensions in Finland. Each year, the Finnish Centre for Pensions awards the prize to an outstanding Master’s thesis on a pension-related topic.

For many people, a monthly pension of around €900 makes everyday life easier. The partial old-age pension also allows people to reduce their working hours in the final years of their career without a major drop in income.

Työeläke.fi now helps users to find the right information more easily than ever. The new visual features make the content easier to scan quickly, support navigation around the site and, above all, make information about earnings-related pensions easier to understand. Services that require identification, as well as the calculators, remain unchanged.

The Finnish Centre for Pensions received recognition in the European Labour Authority’s (ELA) competition. The award was given for the Finnish Centre for Pensions’ website and service, which simplify the process of determining social insurance contributions in cross-border employment.

Finns’ trust in the Finnish earnings-related pension system varies according to their perceived social status. A study conducted by the Finnish Centre for Pensions found that Finns’ trust in pensions falls can be categorised into three distinct groups.

A more flexible framework is being proposed for disability pensioners, enabling them to combine work and receiving a pension more easily. This flexible model is currently progressing through the Finnish Parliament and is expected to come into effect at the beginning of 2028.

The Finnish Centre for Pensions is improving its operations and document management by setting up a registry office, which will start operating on 7 April 2026. This change aims to clarify administrative processes clearer and ensure documents are handled efficiently and without delay.

Retiring is a major change that will affect your finances and everyday life. The new Suomi.fi guide provides clear instructions for planning your retirement and applying for a pension. The Finnish Centre for Pensions has taken part in designing and creating the guide.

Each year, more than 17,000 Finns retire on a disability pension. A growing proportion of them are over 60 years old. Among the older workforce, the most common cause of disability is musculoskeletal disorders.

The assets of the Finnish earnings-related pension system continued to grow in 2025 – for a third year in a row. At the end of the year, the assets amounted to 290 billion eros, up by nearly 6 per cent from 2024. The data stems from the recent statistics on money flows of the Finnish Centre for Pensions.