Damascus-Sana
The recent amendments to the social insurance law allowed the worker at home to participate in the same insurance in old age, disability and death, and also allowed workers abroad to participate in the same services in return for deducting 21.1 percent of the wage of the subscriber paid in dollars. Social insurance has more than 1.8 million workers in the public and private sectors.
In a statement to the SANA Economic Bulletin, Yahya Ahmed, director of the Social Insurance Corporation, pointed out that a number of measures have been taken within the framework of the administrative reform project, including the preparation of a draft amendment to the institution's internal regulations in line with the administrative and social development. With social security systems and current and future stage requirements.
Ahmed pointed out that the institution to automate all its work through a network of all work sites in the provinces and linking them with the central administration in addition to the launch of the electronic archiving project, which aims to save documents from damage and dispense with papers and simplify procedures and reduce the financial burden on the institution and the insured has been archived more than 1,144 One million files until the current August in Damascus, Latakia, Tartous, Hama, Sweida and Rural Damascus and work is continuing to complete the project in the rest of the governorates has also been updated computer network in order to improve the quality of insurance services.
In the field of simplifying procedures for the participants, Ahmed said that the Corporation is working to complete the agreement with the Ministry of Transport to collect insurance contributions for drivers by the transport directorates to include all governorates, in addition to linking the database with the Insurance and Pension Agency in order to dispense with the document "No restriction" and thus reduce the financial burden And effort about the workers and their families.
He pointed out that the Corporation has settled the pensions of retirees and their beneficiaries with the public banks and the postal corporation in order to ensure the payment of dues away from complications and red tape.The network has also been linked with the directorates of finance in order to control the tax evasion of taxpayers and to save time and correspondence and to support the work of inspectors in the governorates.
Regarding the rehabilitation works for the affected branch buildings, Ahmed explained that the foundation has completed the ambulatory rehabilitation works for a number of the affected branch buildings in addition to the creation of new buildings and the completion of the rehabilitation of Aleppo branch headquarters worth 130 million pounds and ambulatory rehabilitation of Homs branch worth 65 million pounds and rehabilitation of the headquarters of Quneitra branch 3 million pounds and the rehabilitation of Tartous branch worth about 80 million pounds while the completion of the building of the new branch of Lattakia and will be put into service during the current year and completed work in the building of the new Adra branch has been put on active service while the building was rented to the branch of insurance Deir Ezzor pending rehabilitation Branch destroyed by armed terrorist groups building.
Ahmed stressed the importance of finishing the problem of debt on the public sector, which exceeded the amount of 210 billion pounds at the end of last year, has been completed 1837 financial reconciliation with public bodies out of 2449 hand, as was addressed to all public bodies and ministries and direct branches of the institution to do what is necessary to collect debt through Supporting the guardian authorities in addition to the signing of the minutes of the meeting, under which the Ministry of Finance paid two billion pounds a month to pay the accumulated debts, noting that the value of contributions paid since the beginning of this year and until July amounted to about 44 billion pounds.
Regarding revenues and expenses paid, Ahmed pointed out that the revenues collected amounted to about 56 billion pounds, of which more than 11 billion from the private sector and more than 61 billion pounds were paid pension value during the first half of this year at a rate of more than 10 billion pounds per month note that the value Pensions and compensations amounted to 129 billion pounds in 2018, while 2650 loans were granted to retirees with a total value exceeding 729 million pounds in addition to granting 34 loans to employees of the institution worth more than 17 million pounds for the same period, indicating that the rate of implementation of the investment plan for the previous three years amounted to about 100 percent. Implementation rate reached 36 percent for the end of July.
Ahmed pointed out that the Foundation is working to involve all workers in the private sector under the umbrella of insurance, where about 325 thousand workers were registered in less than a year bringing the total number of registered workers more than 811 thousand workers in the private sector in addition to one million and 15 thousand workers in the public sector to become a total Registered employees more than one million and 800 thousand workers.
Nadim Mualla
SANA Economic Bulletin
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