16.02.2023

THE MINISTRY WITH CLARIFICATIONS ON THE PENSIONS OF PEOPLE WITH TEMC

The payment of disability pensions, foreign aid supplements, social benefits and financial support for disabled people with expired TEMC decisions will be officially resumed by the National Social Security Institute and the Social Assistance Agency in March. This was announced by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy.

People who have submitted an application-declaration for re-examination at least three months before the expiration of the term of their expert decision and who were unable to appear at TEMC on time due to a delay in the medical examination will have the right to do so. Social payments will be paid in compliance with the procedures and deadlines stipulated in the regulations, adds the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy.

The official restoration of the rights of people with disabilities was regulated by changes to the Law on People with Disabilities, which came into force on January 29, 2023. The information about the right holders will be submitted by the Ministry of Health to the National Institute of Health and Social Welfare and Development each month by the 20th. It is not necessary for people to declare it to the institutions.

National Social Security Institute has already informed that the payments of disability pensions and/or supplements for foreign aid will be reimbursed according to the lists provided by the Ministry of Health in the first half of March.

Personal disability pension due to general illness, personal disability pension due to work accident and occupational disease, personal military disability pension, personal civil disability pension, social disability pension, inheritance pension payable will then be restored and continued of persons based on a percentage of permanently reduced working capacity/type and degree of disability determined in an expert decision of TEMC/NEMC, supplement for foreign aid.

The Social Assistance Agency will ex officio resume the payment of social benefits and financial support for people with permanent disabilities with expired TEMC/NEMC decisions. Payments for the month of February will be transferred after March 15 according to the lists of eligible people received from the Ministry of Health.