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Opening a limited account or the management of the earnings of a client with diminished capacity
This page contains information on what you as a guardian should take into account when planning the placing of your client’s funds in a limited account, in the implementation of changes to a limited account or when taking up the management of the earnings of a client with diminished capacity.
A limited account refers to an account from which funds can only be withdrawn or transferred with the permission of the guardianship authority. If you as a guardian want to place your client’s funds in limited account, your will need permission from the guardianship authority to do so. When funds have been placed in the limited account, you will need permission for the withdrawal of funds from the account or for changing the terms and conditions of the account.
If you have placed your client’s funds in a limited account, the guardianship authority can extend the accounting period for the annual statement or grant an exemption from submitting an annual account.
If you are the guardian of a client with diminished capacity and you observe that you should take on the management of your client’s earnings to ensure the best interest of your client, you will need a permit to do so. A client with diminished capacity refers to a minor or an adult, who has been declared incompetent. However, you must ensure that your client has free access to a sufficient amount of funds.
This is what to do
- Fill in the application for a limited account and submit it and its attachments to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency via email, by post or by taking them personally to the application’s service location.
- The processing of your permit application will be faster if you submit all the necessary attachments at the same time with your application. Where necessary, we will ask you for supplementary data.
- We will send any request for supplementary data electronically to the Suomi.fi Messages service or via email, by post as a letter or by phone.
Required documents
Attachments that will be required for opening a limited account, for the withdrawal of funds from the account or for changing the terms and conditions of the limited account include
- an account agreement and a receipt on the transfer of funds to the limited account
- Agreement on changes to the terms and conditions of the account
- Statement on the use of withdrawn funds
- If your client is a minor aged 15 or over or an adult whose functional capacity is not limited and they understand the significance of the matter, attach the client’s written opinion on the action to the application.
The required attachments for an application to manage the earnings of a clients with diminished capacity.
- Certificate of wages
- Information on the client’s other monthly income and expenditure
- The client’s written opinion, if they understand the significance of the matter.
Price
A permit decision costs EUR 184.
Processing period
The average processing time is two months. As a rule, cases are processed in their order of arrival. In individual cases, the processing time may be less or more than this depending on the size and complexity of the matter. Processing times are longer when not all necessary reports have been included as attachments to the application.
Check list
- Consider whether the planned action will benefit your client.
- Discuss the matter with your client and find out their opinion, if the client is able to understand the significance of the matter.
- Check that you have all the necessary attachments for the permit application. The attachments to the application may be copies.
Guardianship Services contact information
When sending an email, please use the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s secure email to ensure that your information is sent securely. Select [email protected] as the recipient in the secure mail
Send the email as a secure email
Postal address
Digital and Population Data Services Agency / Guardianship, PO Box 1001, FI-02151 Espoo
With the exception of property inventories, annual statements and final statements, you can send all post to the Guardianship Service to the address listed above. The three separately specified reports must be mailed to the postal address of the service location responsible for their monitoring.
Telephone number
The telephone service is open 9.00-12.00 on weekdays
Service number +358 295 536 256
Chat service
You can also contact us via chat at our web pages. Chat service is open Mon-Fri from 9.00 to 15.00. Please do not give sensitive information, such as your personal ID number on the chat.
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Addresses of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s service location
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- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
- Dissolution of cohabitation
- Removal of marital rights to property
- Extracts issued of the register on the right to officiate at weddings
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- Guardianship
- Continuing power of attorney
- Appointment of a guardian
- Duties of the guardian
- Guardianship for a minor
- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
- Guardianship authority's means of supervision
- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
- Extracts from the Register of Guardianship Affairs
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Registration of a gift notification
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
- Living abroad
- Moving
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- Divorce granted abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Moving to Finland
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