Compensation of costs for reception of refugees and promotion of integration
Processing of personal data
Municipalities, wellbeing services counties and the health and medical care authority of Åland are paid imputed compensation for the costs incurred in receiving refugees and promoting integration, for persons receiving international protection residing in the municipality, for persons receiving temporary protection in their municipality of residence, for victims of human trafficking and for persons who have been granted a residence permit on a discretionary basis on other humanitarian grounds or because they are prevented from leaving the country. In addition, imputed compensation covers the family members or other close relatives of the aforementioned persons if the family relationship existed before they arrived in Finland. As a rule, imputed compensation is paid for a period of two years from the time a person is registered as having a municipality of residence in the Population Information System.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is the controller of the personal data file of the automatic payment system for imputed compensation. The personal data file consists of lists of persons on which the compensation is based and which are stored in the electronic case management system for immigration matters (UMA) maintained by the Finnish Immigration Service. To carry out the payments, the data is processed by the Development and Administration Services Centre (the KEHA Centre).
What data is collected for the automatic payment system of imputed compensation?
The persons covered by imputed compensation are defined in the Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration (the Integration Act).
The payment of imputed compensation is based on combining the identity and residence permit data in the UMA system of persons covered by the compensation under the Integration Act and the municipality of residence data obtained from the Population Information System. This combining of data creates monthly payment proposals of imputed compensation by municipality and wellbeing services county based on a list of persons in the UMA system, which are automatically transferred from the UMA system to the KEHA Centre for processing and payment. The payment proposal does not contain personal data.
What is our data processing based on?
We process your personal data to comply with our statutory obligation.
Provisions on the costs to be compensated to municipalities, wellbeing services counties and the health and medical care authority of Åland are laid down in the Integration Act (681/2023).
The tasks of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment are laid down in e.g.:
- Government Decree on the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
- Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment Decree on the Rules of Procedure of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
Disclosure and transfer of personal data
The data on the payment of imputed compensation can be accessed in the UMA system by those employees of municipalities, wellbeing services counties and the health and medical care authority of Åland, who have the right to use the compensation function of the system, as well as the KEHA Centre, which is responsible for the payments to municipalities and wellbeing services counties.