Social Security Committee starts second term with focus on level of social security and responsiveness of benefits and services to different life situations

The parliamentary Social Security Committee will meet for the first time during its second term on Thursday 14 December 2023.

The Social Security Committee will convene for the first time during its second term to discuss the comments received on its interim report and to get organised for its second term.

During its second term, the Social Security Committee will address three different subject areas and monitor the preparations for launching universal credit. The subject areas are:

• Responsiveness of benefits and services to people’s life situations (particularly employment, illness, incapacity for work and related services)
• The level of social security and combinations of social security benefits, the relationship between basic social security and last-resort financial assistance and their role in the social security system
• Individual- and family-specific benefits, maintenance liabilities and different housing and family situations.

The Committee will begin its work in early 2024 by examining the level of social security and how well different benefits and services respond to people’s life situations.

Committee to convene in two different compositions

The Social Security Committee includes Members of Parliament from all parliamentary group, as well as permanent experts. During its second term, the Committee will meet in its full composition and separately in the composition of its members from parliamentary groups. The Committee will meet in its full composition approximately four times a year. The meetings of members from the parliamentary groups will take place in between the meetings of the full Committee.

In spring 2024, the Committee will meet in its full composition on Tuesday 12 March and on Thursday 23 May.

The work of the Social Security Committee will be supported by a working group appointed for this purpose.

Work of Social Security Committee is part of social security reform

Social security will be reformed during this parliamentary term through government projects and the work of the Social Security Committee. The government projects promoting social security include the reform of basic social security by using a universal credit model, the social assistance reform and the reform of the general housing allowance.

The aim of the social security reform is to make the social security system smoother and simpler, with more incentives for work.

Read more:

• Social security reform
• Social security reform on social media (X)
• Interim Report of the Social Security Committee (description sheet available in English) 

Inquiries:

Pasi Moisio, Research Professor, Chair of the Social Security Committee, tel. +358 29 524 7228, [email protected]
Liisa Siika-aho, Director General, 1st Vice-Chair of the Social Security Committee, tel. +358 295 163 085, [email protected]
Essi Rentola, Director, 2nd Vice-Chair of the Social Security Committee, tel. +358 295 163 155, [email protected]
Anna Työrinoja, Communications Specialist, tel. +358 295 163 615, [email protected]