The government is carrying out its promises to initiate social security reform when the Minister for Social Affairs and Health, Aino-Kaisa Pekonen, puts a parliamentary committee to prepare a roadmap for social security reform.

– It is high time to renew A fragmented and infvious Finnish social security system. The work is enormous, but the appointment of the Committee is a step towards a fair and enabling social security. The Committee establishes a common understanding on the direction of reform based on knowledge and research, says Paavo Arhinmäki, chairman of the Left Alliance parliamentary group. We want to dismantle bureaucratic and incentive traps and create opportunities and trust for people instead of sanctions. In the first phase it is important to combine and streamline the complex social security system with the goal of later transition to basic income. In the basic income system, all ages are paid on a regular basis and free of charge for subsistence. As a model, the tax system should be reformed so that the basic income in practice is taxed away from the good-bye. The left alliance has unveiled its social security in 2018. – In the parliamentary committee, our aim is to move as far as possible towards the basic income model. The new model must allow a much better integration of employment and entrepreneurship in social security. We want to dismantle bureaucratic and incentive traps and create opportunities and trust for people instead of sanctions. In the long term, the left Alliance seeks a basic income of at least EUR 800, which would be sufficient to compensate for the current basic security benefits and basic livelihoods. – The Constitution guarantees every right to the necessary Livelihoods and care. The basic security must be sufficient to eliminate the need for people to supplement it with the income support provided for the first-hand benefit. Each parliamentary group shall appoint one representative and one alternate to the broad parliamentary committee. The Committee's term of office lasts until 2027.