Finnish opposition cautiously supportive of social security reform

MEMBERS of Finnish opposition parties are supportive, with some reservations, of the goals of the social security reform outlined to Helsingin Sanomat last Wednesday by Minister of Social Security Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (NCP).

The newspaper wrote that a parliamentary task force has found an agreement on the first phase of the reform: combining the basic unemployment allowance and labour market subsidy into a universal benefit.