Not to assign private companies to manage the arrears to EFKA, as well as the withdrawal of the relevant provision provided by the General Confederation of Professional Craftsmen and Traders of Greece (GSEVEE).

In a letter sent to the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Niki Kerameos, the government’s decision was taken by the government’s decision, as there was no prior information and consultation.

“We were surprised to be informed about the content of Article 215 of the deposited bill in Parliament entitled: Strengthening the Capital Market and other provisions. This article briefly provides that by decision of the Board of Directors. of EFKA, may be entrusted to private companies, support services, related to the management of overdue insurance contributions, the debtors register, the planning of actions to enhance the collection of the KEAO, explicitly prohibiting these companies to collect debt and the receipt of forced measures. Although the general wording of the article is so structured to look painless, it cannot hide what it really wants to do. The entrance, by the letter of the law, of the collection companies in the field of insurance debts. And this is done with the access they acquire, private companies, to the debtors’ register, and therefore the possibility of exploiting data and/or abuse of sensitive information, always with the indemnity, “GSEVEE said in its letter.

It should be noted that the experience of the management of overdue debts to date was painful as both small and very small businesses and self -employed and thousands of other citizens lost their businesses, their homes, their lives. “Only rage are causing such arrangements.

We remind you that the growth of private debt, including overdue insurance debts, was not the result of some organic imperfection of our nature, but of the extreme conditions created by the long period of successive crises. On these debts themselves and on the basis of the information published by the KEAO we note the following:

– The total debts are around € 49.2 billion. Of these, € 29.8 billion corresponds to the main debt and EUR 19.6 billion to additional fees and surcharges. That is, from total debts, about 40%, they are additional fees and surcharges.

– The overwhelming majority of debtors (73.44%) have a debt of up to EUR 15,000. 92.2% of debtors have a debt of up to 50,000 euros. On the other hand, 6,842 debtors or 0.3% of debtors have more than 500,000 euros. In fact, their debts account for 30% of total debts. We see these elements repeatedly, and in combination with successive and successive judgments we persistently propose the institutionalization of a brave and realistic regulation of insurance debts to enable these people to repay their debts. “

It is time, emphasizes GSEVEE, the Greek state in practice to recognize that the crises did not find businesses and citizens “Xovafsa” and to provide opportunities to the tens of thousands of our fellow citizens who were destroyed to recover. “The glass has overflowed. We ask for fair and human solutions. We ask the article in question immediately to retire! “