Clear News | Monday 3.8.2026

Student loan. Tax refunds. Clothing store and Temu. Weather

Many people have difficulty paying their student loans

First, the news about student loans.

Many young adults don’t have the money to pay back their student loans, due to unemployment and rising interest rates on student loans.

Kela is now having to pay back a record number of student loans to banks. Kela pays back the loans because the student loan is a government-guaranteed loan.

Kela is also paying out a record amount of grants so that people have money to pay off their student loans.

Many young adults don’t have the money to pay back their student loans.

Student loans can amount to thousands of euros.

Tax refunds of over a billion euros

Next, information about tax refunds.

Today, tax refunds will be paid to over 2 million Finns.

You can get tax refunds if you have paid too much tax. Last year, Finns paid a total of over a billion euros in too much tax.

More than 300,000 Finns paid too little tax. They will have to pay the missing taxes, or mätky.

Today, tax refunds will be paid to over 2 million Finns.

The Tax Administration warns that there are currently many scam messages circulating related to tax refunds.

Finnish specialty stores compete with Temu

Finally, news about cheap fashion.

Large Asian online stores and Finnish specialty stores sell a lot of the same clothes.

For example, Cybershop, which specializes in a different style, sells clothes that can also be ordered cheaply from Temu or Amazon.

The CEO of Cybershop says that they buy clothes from the same Chinese manufacturer as Temu. However, they cannot sell clothes as cheaply as Temu.

The CEO says that they check the quality of every garment, unlike Temu.

Cybershop’s turnover has decreased due to Temu. The CEO says that Temu affects all stores:

– It doesn’t matter if you sell buckets or nuts. No matter what you sell, you can find it at Temus, and it’s definitely cheaper.

Tuesday weather

Still a weather forecast.

The weather will be changeable on Tuesday.

It’s raining and thundering in Lapland.

Elsewhere in Finland it is mainly cloudy, meaning it does not rain.

Temperatures are 14–23 degrees.