Social welfare client data will start to appear in MyKanta

MyKanta is a national online service for citizens. It is part of the Kanta services maintained by Kela.

In MyKanta, you can see your health records and, in future, your data recorded in social services. Data from the social services in the Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County will become available in MyKanta in stages during spring 2026.

You can sign in to MyKanta at www.kanta.fi. To sign in, you will need a Finnish personal identity code and one of the following forms of identification:

• online banking credentials
• mobile certificate
• chip ID card

In MyKanta, you can view the data that the professional handling your case has saved in the Kanta services. The data is displayed in the same format in which it was recorded by the professional.

You can see it in the section Social services data:

• information that has been recorded about you when you interacted with social services (decisions, assessments and plans, etc.)
• information about the start of your client relationship
• contact details for your designated social worker

If you find any gaps or errors in your data, contact the social services professional handling your case. They make the necessary corrections to the data in their own client information system, from where they are updated in MyKanta. Kela’s Kanta services only act as the technical implementation of the system and do not change the client data recorded.

Data from the social services in the Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County will be added to MyKanta in phases during spring 2026, and not all data will be available immediately. For more information on how your data will appear in MyKanta, please contact the social services professional handling your case.

You can influence the use of your data by giving your consent to the disclosure of your social services client data in MyKanta. When you give your consent, your data will move between different social service providers in the future. This makes your interaction with social welfare easier when, for example, you move from on wellbeing services county to another or use both public and private social services. The professional managing your case can serve you better when they can see what social services you have received elsewhere in the past.

If you do not consent to the disclosure, the data will only be available to the provider of each social service. Although you can already influence how your data is used in MyKanta, your data does not yet move between different actors. Data can be transferred once social service providers have made the necessary changes to their information systems.

In some areas of their work, social welfare professionals have a legal right to access information. This means that even if you have not given your consent to the disclosure of your data, or even if you have prohibited the disclosure, professionals such as a social worker of a wellbeing services county has for a justified reason the right to access and use your data for the assessment of your service needs.

In MyKanta you can:

• gradually view client data from social services, such as client data recorded by social welfare and contact details of your designated social worker
• authorise the disclosure of your data and impose restrictions
• view social services client records on behalf of your child or another adult, if they have authorised you to do so for social welfare purposes
• However, you cannot receive messages, initiate cases, send documents or edit your own data through MyKanta.