The provision for easier receipt of proof insurance awareness(as it will be given for small debts under 100 euros to e-EFKA), along with a series of other provisions that facilitate employees and insured parents of children with rare diseases, choice of insurance company for insured persons with dual status), are included in the new provisions bill for modernization of e-EFKAfiled in Parliament.
The bill also includes the legislation announced by Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs for the payment of salaries and insurance contributions of employees in companies, whose operation was suspended on January 25-26, by order of a public authority, due to bad weather “Elpis”.
According to an announcement by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the most important new provisions are the following:
«1. Issuance of proof of insurance awareness with debts up to 100 euros to e-EFKA
It is provided that for the issuance of a certificate of insurance awareness, debts of the applicant up to the amount of 100 euros certified to e-EFKA are not taken into account. The proposed regulation facilitates the issuance of insurance awareness for all traders with e-EFKA, as problems are encountered regarding the operation of the insurance awareness issuance software that lead to the delay in issuing the relevant receipt, due to very low debts.
2. Abolition of pre-registration of non-employees in e-EFKA with the start of activity – The process of starting or changing jobs in the tax office is easier
With the proposed regulation, the procedure of the inventory declaration (“pre-registration”) of non-employees in the e-EFKA is abolished and is replaced by the direct registration of the citizen as an insured self-employed person, when he starts or changes jobs in the tax office. This simplifies the process of starting and changing operations in the tax office, as the prior receipt of the inventory statement by the insurance company will not be required. With the interconnection of the information systems of the involved services, the e-EFKA will now be able to receive the information of the start / change, without the need to pre-register the insured in it, in order to start work in the tax office or add a new activity in e-EFKA insurance.
3. ’10 days paid leave’ to parents for rare diseases of children
The provision of article 43 of law 4808/2021 (Law on Labor Protection) is supplemented, which provides for a 10-day paid leave due to serious illnesses of children, with provision for children suffering from rare diseases included in the ORPHANET list. . Diseases are considered rare, when they affect 5 in 10,000 people in the community, are characterized by high heterogeneity and most of them are genetic in nature (autoimmune diseases, congenital malformations, etc.). It is reminded that this leave is excellent and is given in addition to the child sick leave and the caregiver leave.
4. Choice of insurance company for policyholders with dual status
The purpose of the proposed provision is to provide the option of joining the e-EFKA body, which will include insured persons, who belonged to two main insurance companies, due to their capacity (engineers, lawyers, doctors), until December 31, 2016 and paid double contributions, even though they had one job.
With article 20 of law 4488/2017, the affiliation to the insurance of lawyers and engineers was disconnected from the registration in the Bar Associations and in the Technical Chamber of Greece, respectively. From January 1, 2017, lawyers and engineers are covered by e-EFKA insurance as self-employed, if they start practicing the profession at the competent Tax Office and as employees or employees, respectively, if they are employed by a specific client or employer, respectively. In the second case, an issue arose for the competent insurance company from 1.1.2017, especially for persons with “closed” books.
In the Katrougalos law there was no provision for the selection of the former institution, in which the insurance period will be considered to expire from 01.01.2017 onwards, if the insured did not choose the continuation of the double insurance, with the consequence that an issue arises in the foundation of his pension right.
With the proposed regulation, the insured are given the right to choose a former body. In particular, at the request of the insured to the e-EFKA, which must be submitted by December 31, 2022 and will go back to January 1, 2017, the applicants will choose the former institution, with the provisions of which they will continue their insurance within the e-EFKA. Application for selection of a former institution will also be available for persons who have already submitted a retirement application, in order to determine the competent service within e-EFKA for the processing of their retirement application, as well as insured persons who have chosen or choose the optional payment of a second contribution , since for the latter also the institution must be determined, on the basis of the provisions of which the corresponding contributions are paid by the employer.
It is noted that the selection of an institution will not lead to a return of additional contributions that had been paid or to a search for additional contributions that had not been charged for the period from January 1, 2017 until the month of the declaration.
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5. Coverage of insurance contributions by the state for the companies that remained closed on January 25-26, due to the (bad weather) “Elpis”.
For the companies whose operation was suspended on January 25-26, in the areas that were put in a state of special mobilization of Civil Protection (Regions of Attica, Crete and South Aegean, Regional Units of Boeotia and Evia of the Region of Central Greece), a regulation is proposed to relieve consequences of this suspension for both employees and businesses. In this context, the coverage from the state budget of all the contributions of the employee and the employer is foreseen for all the insurance branches for which an insurance obligation arises. For the days of suspension, the payment of employees’ salaries by companies is also provided. The manner, the time and the procedure for the coverage of the insurance contributions to the e-EFKA and the details of the submission of the Detailed Periodic Statements, will be regulated by a decision of the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs “.
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