Kelan terminologinen sanasto – Etuuksiin ja tehtäviin liittyvät käsitteet, versio 6.4
© Kansaneläkelaitos (Kela, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland), 2025
The glossary is available:
- in the TEPA Term Bank
- in the Terminologies tool on the Interoperability Platform
Languages of the glossary:
- Terms: Finnish, Swedish
- Concept descriptions: Finnish, Swedish (mainly)
Kela’s Terminological Glossary – Concepts Related to Benefits and Tasks, version 6.3 published in December 2024 has been supplemented and updated. The subjects covered in the publication are the benefits provided and tasks undertaken by Kela (the Social Insurance Institution of Finland), e.g. sickness allowances and reimbursements for medical expenses under the Health Insurance Act, medical treatment in international situations, occupational healthcare, disability benefits and interpreter services for persons with disabilities, rehabilitation arranged and reimbursed by Kela, pensions paid by Kela, housing allowances, student benefits, conscript's allowance, family benefits, unemployment benefits and basic social assistance.
In the version 6.4 subject fields of housing allowances and student benefits, among others, have been updated.
Kela’s Terminological Glossary contains information on 584 concepts in term records and concept diagrams. The concepts have been defined and given term recommendations in Finnish and Swedish. The relations between the concepts are illustrated with the help of concept diagrams. The new concepts in version 6.4 of the glossary do not have Swedish translations, and if Finnish concept descriptions have been updated, the Swedish descriptions do not always correspond to the updated Finnish ones. The Swedish concept descriptions will be updated in later versions.
Kela’s Terminological Glossary describes the Finnish social security system from the point of view of legislation. The glossary is aimed at experts on social security, law drafters, PR officers, editors, translators and all who need to know the recommended social security terms used in connection with Kela and their meaning. The glossary also supports data management and helps to develop retrieval, transmission, archiving and modelling of data.
Kela and the Finnish Terminology Centre started to define concepts already in 2007. The aim was to harmonize, establish and clarify the terminology related to social security provided by Kela and to improve communication between Kela and its partners with the help of systematic terminology work. The previous editions and versions of Kela’s Terminological Glossary (previously called the terminological vocabularies of Kela) were published in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023 and 2024. Until 2021 the editions were also published as PDF files. Versions 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 have been published only in the TEPA Term Bank and the Terminologies tool.