The project will finance the labour-policy measures of the TOPI project ‘Services guiding the working life’. The wage subsidy mainly supports the employment of 30-59-year-olds of the Kuopio region who are capable and motivated to work and whose unemployment has persisted for more than 12 months or at least 12 months in a 16-month period. Wage subsidies can also be used to support the employment of young people whose unemployment is protracted.