Oikeuslaitos - Income statement

Income statement

The applicant files a statement of his or her income, expenses, assets and liabilities and attaches the pertinent receipts and other documentation. In most cases, the required information can be supplied with bank account statements, social welfare decisions and tax certificates.

If legal is being applied for electronically, no receipts or other documentation need to be attached to the application. Electronically given information will be spot checked or verified at the Legal Aid Office. For this reason, the receipts and other documentation need to be preserved.

When applying for legal aid, information must be supplied to the Legal Aid Office on the following:

Income

Regular wages or salary: latest payslip or wage/salary certificate

Irregular wages: payslip for the latest six months or wage certificate

Pension: account statement or latest payment notification from the pensions institute

Unemployment, maternity, illness or accident insurance benefits, student, home care and housing subsidies: account statement or latest payment notification

Business or professional income: Accountant’s certificate, latest income statement or tax certificate

Child maintenance support and subsidies: account statement or maintenance settlement

Interest, dividends, rental income and other capital income: account statement or other sufficient information

Child benefits: no documentation necessary

Other taxable income: sufficient information

Expenses

Taxes: payslip or withdrawal card

Rent/maintenance charge: receipt, account statement, lease or decision on housing subsidy

Maintenance costs for a house: for convenience, costs up to EUR 250 per month are in practice accepted without documentation; for costs in excess of this, receipts should be supplied for the preceding six months

Interest on a home loan: account statement

Day-care charges, child maintenance payments: receipt or account statement

Payments in debt adjustment proceedings: documentation on payments according to the schedule (receipt/account statement)

Payments towards debts in enforcement: payslip, receipt or account statement

Wealth

The primary residence of the family, an ordinary leisure home and a car are disregarded as assets, provided that their value is reasonable in proportion to the family’s size and need, and no documentation on them is therefore required.

Liabilities are deducted from the assets using market values. Debts incurred for the purchase of aforementioned property are disregarded in the calculation.

Funds on deposit: bank book or account statement

Real property: tax certificate

Shares in a housing company: tax certificate

Share in a decedent’s estate or a partnership: tax certificate

Vehicles: tax certificate

Investments, such as stock or mutual funds: extract from the book-entry register, certificate from the mutual fund management company

Updated on 25 January 2011