Some workers have not received wage subsidies due to these limitations …

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Data from the Ministry of Manpower (Kemenaker) as of Friday (9/4/2020) show that salary subsidies have been granted to 2,310,974 workers who have incomes below 5 million IDR in the first phase of distribution.

This amount represents 92.44 percent of the total beneficiaries of the first phase wage subsidy assistance (BSU), that is, 2.5 million workers.

“In the first phase of the distribution of salaries / salary subsidies, the number of accounts that could not be distributed was 15,659 beneficiary accounts. The accounts that are still in the disbursement process of 173,367 beneficiaries,” said the Minister of Mano de Work (Menaker) Ida Fauziyah in her statement quoted. Between, Sunday (9/6/2020).

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According to Ida, the causes of the wage subsidy cannot be distributed, namely, duplication of accounts, closed accounts, passive accounts, invalid accounts, frozen accounts, and accounts that do not match the NIK.

Therefore, it asked BPJS Ketenagakerjaan to verify the account details of the potential recipients to communicate with all interested parties in order to resolve the data submission issue.

The process of distributing the second stage of wage subsidies itself started from Friday (9/4/2020) after the Ministry of Manpower has completed a re-examination or Check list data provided by BPJS Ketenagakerjaan.

However, unlike the previous stage, in the second stage the government will distribute BSU to 3 million workers.

Kemenaker has provided data on 3 million potential recipients to the State Treasury Services Office (KPPN), which then turned over the BSU funds to the Association of State-Owned Banks (Himbara) as a distributor.

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The state banks then distribute the BSU in the form of 600,000 rupees per month for four months or a total of 2.4 million rupees, to the personal accounts of workers, both at fellow Himbara banks and private banks.

The Ministry of Manpower aims for BSUs to be distributed to the 15.7 million workers as planned by the government by mid-September 2020.