1.6 million workers are rejected as wage subsidies, what is the reason?

“At-release most are those whose salaries exceed 5 million rupees, but I do not have the detailed data, “he said through Live Instagram, Friday (9/4/2020).

Agus explained that BPJS Ketenagakerjaan uses employer-reported wage data as the basis for determining which workers can receive subsidies. The salary in question consists of the base salary plus a fixed allowance that is paid monthly, not take home pay.

According to him, workers who feel they deserve a subsidy can also check the nominal wage reported by the supplier to BPJS Ketenagakerjaan via the BPJSTKU app or sso.bpjsketenagakerjaan.go.id.

If there is a discrepancy, workers can ask the staff or DHR at their workplace to correct the data.

Apart from salary above 5 million IDR, Permenaker No. 14/2020 also regulates other requirements for beneficiaries of salary subsidies, namely a worker who receives a salary, and is actively registered and pays the membership fee of BPJS Ketenagakerjaan until June 2020.

But in fact, according to Agus, BPJS Ketenagakerjaan still accepts applications for wage subsidies for non-salaried workers. Agus added that the data that many considered invalid were workers who signed up for BPJS Ketenagakerjaan after June 30, 2020.

“Data like this is captured and filtered by us,” he said.

Agus explained that of the target beneficiaries of the wage subsidies of 15.7 million workers, BPJS Ketenagakerjaan has obtained data on 14.3 million workers. However, only 11.5 million data validated, while 1.6 million were rejected and 1.2 million were returned to the employer.

Regarding the 1.2 million data returned, Agus said that they had met the requirements stipulated in Permenaker No. 14/2020. However, the account number is inactive or the name does not match the BPJS Ketenagakerjaan data.

“We returned the 1.2 million pieces of data to the company for repair because someone had an inactive account number or it turned out that they did not have an account, but borrowed from their brother’s account. This is not allowed,” he said.

According to Agus, all data on employee account numbers must be exactly the same as those registered in BPJS Ketenagakerjaan. According to him, the suitability of the data is to ensure that the distribution of the wage subsidy is accounting because the funds are transferred directly to the workers’ accounts.

The government has budgeted 37.7 billion IDR for a wage subsidy program targeting 15.7 million workers with wages below 5 million IDR. Wage subsidies of Rs 600,000 per month are given for four months, from September to December 2020. However, the payment is made every two months, ie in the third and fourth quarters of 2020. (kaw)