Menaker asks HRD to help workers disburse Rs 600,000 wage subsidy Full page

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The Minister of Manpower (Menaker), Ida Fauziyah, asked the supplier of the company to be proactive in assisting workers in the process of disbursing the salary subsidy of 600,000 rupees in the government assistance program, Subsidy Assistance Salary (BSU).

“We urge employers or companies to generate communication and dialogue with workers about data from workers’ accounts,” Ida said in an official statement from the Ministry of Manpower on Monday (7/9/2020).

It hopes that the employing company, in this case HRD, so that its employees who receive a monthly salary of less than 5 million IDR can obtain the right to subsidize the salaries of the employees.

“To ensure that there are no errors in the reporting of accounts to BPJS Ketenagakerjaan. So that the distribution of salaries or salary subsidies is correct,” Ida explained.

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The government has disbursed the first stage of the Rs 600,000 wage subsidy in BPJS assistance since August 27, 2020. Disbursement of employee wage subsidies (BLT BPJS) will be carried out gradually until the end of September.

For information, during the first phase of BLT disbursement, the BPJS BLT program was not fully received by workers earning Rs 5 million per month.

Ida explained that workers who receive wage subsidies from BPJS Ketenagakerjaan do not have to have an account at state banks, but rather an account that is still active at any bank.

“The government bank is just an aid distributor, the wage subsidy aid is then transferred according to the recipient worker’s account number,” Ida explained.

The BLT government assistance disbursement through this account is granted to workers / laborers in the amount of Rp.600,000 per month for four months for a total of Rp.2.4 million, and BPJS assistance is disbursed in two Disbursement stages of Rp.1.2 million each.

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The detail of the distribution of the Salary Subsidy Assistance in each channeling bank of a total of 2.5 million beneficiaries lot first, the Bank Mandiri accounts of 752,168 people.

Then the distribution of BLT BPJS through BNI Bank accounts was 912,097 people, BRI Bank accounts up to 622,113 people, and Bank BTN accounts up to 213,622 people.

According to Ida, workers who have not received a Rs 600,000 wage subsidy on their accounts need not worry. Disbursement will be made in stages until all workers with salaries below 5 million are registered as 15.7 million beneficiaries.

“Since August 24, we received data from BPJS Ketenagakerjaan that validated 2.5 million. We start this 2.5 million and immediately transfer to coworkers or workers. Also, it will be transferred gradually. We plan for at least 2.5 million per year. Week,” he said Going.

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Ida is also considering the decision to continue with the 600,000 rupee wage subsidy assistance program until 2021. This is because her party still sees the economic condition and effectiveness of the BPJS Ketenagakerjaan wage subsidy.

“This salary / wage subsidy program is allocated in the 2020 budget. It is included in the budget to run our national economy. How about 2021?” Ida explained.

“Of course, the first is again, how to see the effectiveness of this program in the interest of boosting our national economy. And of course, we will see the economic conditions in 2021,” continued Ida.