Of Chrysostom Chufi

Instructions to return from e-EFKA (or offsetting other debts), contributions paid by civil servants while there was no obligation, the Directorate -General for the Agency is given by the Agency’s services.

Instructions relate to contributions Subsidiary Insurance, Welfare and Health Care paid while not until December 31, 2019 and more specifically relate to:

  • Cases where the relevant claim is born or will be born after 1/1/2017
  • In pending returns of reimbursement of unnecessary contributions that have been submitted to the E-EFKA. Insurance organizations, including the State, until 31/12/2016, or E-EFKA. from 1/1/2017, and are at any stage of the administrative process

For unjustly paid contributions from January 1, 2025, they will follow as new instructions are highlighted after the necessary checks are completed.

The requirements of unjustified contributions must have not been submitted to the limitation period at the date of submission of the relevant application. In accordance with the provisions in force are subject to a 5 -year limitation period.

Therefore, the amount of contributions paid is unnecessary during the last five years prior to the submission of the application for their refund.

Return request

In the beneficiary’s request to the E-EFKA Local Directorate must be mentioned:

  • The insurance sectors for which the payment was made
  • The period of time
  • In summary the cause
  • Beneficiary’s employment relationship

Specifically for applications by beneficiary employers require their legal form (Public, NPD, OTA, etc.) as well as the service and place of employment of the insured person, for which the unnecessary payment left.

Simultaneously with the application or subsequently must be submitted and the Certificate of payroll liquidator that must contain:

a) The individual insurance data.

b) The employment relationship (public law – IDAX – IDOX etc.).

c) The amount of unnecessary contributions paid, separately for each insurance industry

d) The time -paying period during which the unnecessary payment took place.

e) The reason why the unnecessary payment took place.

f) Specific reference that the contributions, for which the refund is requested as indefinitely paid, have been paid through the Single Payment Authority or by bank deposit to the accounts of the E-EFKA bodies and have not been refunded or offset in any way.

For a beneficiary employer, it must also be fully named, the number of business registration, the VAT and the place of providing the services of the beneficiary of the insured.

Certificate of payroll liquidator should be accompanied by “Special Status” which will include in distinct columns:

a) The payroll reference period of unnecessary payment.

(b) the number of the payroll status, the remuneration (retirement -inspections), on which the unnecessary (additional) contributions were calculated.

(c) The amounts withheld as insured contributions.

(d) The amounts withheld as employer contributions.

(e) The amount of contributions resulting as a “additional” difference and must be refunded.

Upon submission, the application receives a protocol number, a review request is made by the competent official and then the return decision is issued or not.

Decisions issued will be notified to applicants, to Local Directorate insurance and contributions departments and in Department of Financial Management of the competent Regional Coordination and Support Service.

Beneficiaries who submitted applications to the former 1st Auxiliary Insurance and Public Sector Affairs Directorate and have not been handled, and have not been handled, do not have the obligation to submit a new application to local Departments, where they will be forwarded competently.