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“I raise the question whether the really mandatory health insurance tax should be linked to the fact of registering with the Employment Service,” Navickienė said in the Social Democratic faction of Seimas on Thursday.
“The employment service is a place where a person comes to look for work. It is not a social support institution,” added the minister.
According to her, this issue is already being discussed with the Ministry of Health.
Now, all those enrolled in the Employment Service are covered by PSD and the state pays the insurance premiums.
The state also reimburses PSD for women on maternity leave, retirees, under 18s, schoolchildren, students, and people who receive social benefits.
Early retirement masks the problem of hiring people
In the Social Democratic faction of Seimas, the minister also said that early pensions mask the problem of employment for older people who cannot find work. M. Navickienė assures that the state’s objective should be to keep these people in the labor market for as long as possible.
“People should be able to stay in the labor market until retirement age. And that should be the main goal here and that is what we should strive for. All other additional measures show that we are masking the problem a bit and trying to find an easier solution ”, said M. Navickienė.
According to her, early retirement is not necessarily the best solution.
In Lithuania, it is now possible to receive an early pension if there are five years left until retirement, the person has accumulated the required time of service and has no other income.
Early retirement has an average of € 280. Last year more than 5.5 thousand received it. population.
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