Pensioner membership terms and conditions

You can become a pensioner member when you retire permanently.

In addition to old-age pension, other pensions valid until further notice are also considered permanent pensions. However, if the pension valid until further notice ends before the old-age pension, the Union of Professional Engineers in Finland must be notified. In this case, the pensioner membership will be changed back to regular membership.

Pensioner membership requires the discontinuation of unemployment fund membership active through the Union of Professional Engineers in Finland. However, if you wish to continue as a member of the unemployment fund even while you are retired, you must become a direct member of the unemployment fund.

Working while on old-age pension or other pension valid until further notice does not affect your pensioner membership or membership fees.

Pensioner membership can take effect at the earliest from the beginning of the full month following the receipt of the application, provided that the pension has started at that time and any fund membership through us has been terminated. Unemployment fund membership cannot be terminated retroactively.

Persons on fixed-term or part-time pension cannot become pensioner members.