Everyone who cannot find work gets the same amount, approx. ISK 75,000 a month. RSI has four representatives on the board of the unemployment fund and the retirement pension fund has 5. RSI and the retirement pension fund operate a joint collection agency with a staff of four. The RSI school has a permanent staff of 14 and the piece work office has one full-time worker.
Individual branches have no permanent staff.
The branch chairpersons do a few hours work a week. The Union owns 42 summer cottages and apartments in 15 different places in Iceland and 2 of them are in Spain. In area most of them are approx. Most of them have a hot outdoor jacuzzi. Both these figures include electricity and heating costs.