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According to the Ministry of Social Security and Labor (SADM), this date was chosen because June 5 was the end of the primary school year.
Benefits for parents caring for students with disabilities in kindergarten, preschool, and special school will no longer be paid from the effective date of the amendment to the law. It will take effect the day after the President signs it.
According to the Ministry of Social Affairs, the emergency situation and quarantine are still ongoing, but there are no restrictions on the operation of kindergartens or schools, so the payment of sickness benefits for non-sick children will not continue. .
If a child becomes ill, the usual provisions of the law apply, whereby working parents, guardians, or grandparents may care for a child for up to 14 calendar days and receive a 65.94% sickness benefit. of the salary “on paper”.
Benefit recipients fell by half
Malgožata Kozič, Chief Specialist, Sodra Communication Department Delphi reported that the number of such benefits began to decline steadily when kindergartens were opened.
“After the closure of educational institutions during quarantine, many parents asked doctors to issue certificates of incapacity for work and Sodra to grant sickness benefit to be able to care for children at home. We remind you that Certificates of inability to work in the nursing home were issued to parents, grandparents, guardians who cared for kindergartens, preschoolers, elementary school children, and children with disabilities under the age of 21.
Most residents received these benefits in April: 57-60,000 people had valid disabilities to obtain work certificates each week. people. It is important that some parents request a certificate of disability, others returned to work, so this number fluctuates, “wrote a representative of Sodra in their responses.
According to her, in the first week of June such benefits reached around 30 thousand. parents
“In May, the number of parents who received benefits began to decline steadily, and in the first week of June it reached 27,000. It is likely that the decline was caused by the fact that after the resumption of activities from kindergartens and schools, a significant part of parents returned to work, ”is written in Sodra’s comment.
According to M. Kozič, it would not be possible to circumvent this system either.
“If an employee returns to work with a valid certificate of incapacity for work, the employer provides Sodra with information in this regard. The period of incapacity for work ends and the payment of sickness benefits ends from the day the person go back to work, ”writes a representative of Sodra in the responses sent by Delfi.
Due to the epidemic situation, Sodra has already paid a total of 88 million. Euro sickness benefits.
Parents who cared for kindergartens and elementary school children were eligible for the entire quarantine period, beginning March 16.
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