Freelancers who have declared their income will receive a call from Sodra

“We communicate with clients constantly and in the previous year, when the income reporting period arrived, we contacted some of them.

However, this year the autonomous population is tired of quarantine, they have no worries, so we decided to take the initiative and contact all those who worked independently and declared income to the STI and have not yet paid security contributions Social.

This is not a call to pay your premiums faster; We inform residents about the amount of premiums they will have to pay, how to pay them, and where to find more information. Usually when we get in touch, people have more questions about the payment of contributions, we answer them, ”explains Ježy Miskis, Deputy Director of Sodra.

Many self-employed residents will receive a call from Sodra specialists, some of whom have not provided Sodra with their phone number – emails.

So far, Sodra has received data on about 10,000. residents who have declared income from independent activities to the STI. One fifth of them immediately paid contributions to Sodra. Sodra specialists called more than 6,000 residents who were in no rush to pay their contributions and another 2,000 sent emails. It was not possible to reach just over a hundred residents who have not indicated their contacts to Sodra.

Last year’s revenue is expected to be reported at about 50,000. The autonomous population and the specialists of Sodra are preparing to contact many of them.

It should be noted that during this period, the number of calls from scammers in the guise of strangers, sometimes on behalf of Sodra specialists, is also increasing. As a precaution, Sodra calls on the website www.sodra.lt/surenkamosios-saskaitos Always check the account number to which contributions are transferred. Sodra specialists do not dictate account numbers over the phone, nor do they send them by email or short messages.

Residents who have declared their income to find out their obligations to Sodra (the amount of social security contributions payable) can also find out by logging into the insured’s personal account. www.sodra.lt/draudėjui. There you will find more important information.

Sodra recalls that the self-employed have until May 3 to declare their income to the State Tax Inspection. By the same date, social security contributions to Sodra must be paid and accrued.

If there are difficulties in paying contributions, residents can apply to Sodra for a deferral of contributions, and those whose activities are restricted by a government decision and included in the list of activities affected by the STI can defer contributions in a simplified way. – Without interest.