22.01.2021

Labor offices will work overtime for compensations

By the end of the month, Labor offices will work extra to pay all December compensation to workers in closed businesses. This was announced by the Minister of Labor and Social Policy Denitsa Sacheva on her Facebook account.

The employees of the Employment Agency will be involved not only in the processing of the documents received from them, but also of the ones officially reassigned by the labor offices with a higher workload.

The delay in payment is due to the large number of applications, as well as due to numerous omissions or errors in the documents submitted by employers and workers, including in the data on their bank accounts.

"We appeal to them to check carefully for the completeness and correctness of the documents they submit to the Employment Agency, in order to process and pay the amounts due faster," Minister Sacheva wrote.

So far, requests for compensation of BGN 24 per day have been received from 40,920 employees, and some of them have already been paid BGN 3,084,000.

The acceptance of documents for compensation of those on unpaid leave in January starts in February. They will now amount to 75 percent of the insurance income of the respective person, Mrs. Sacheva reminds.

The documents are considered by a commission within 10 working days after their submission, and the results are announced within 2 working days after the decision is made. This means that the first payments under the new design of the measure will start in mid-February, said the Minister of Labor and Social Policy.

The Minister reported that under the measure 60/40 nearly BGN 750 million have been paid so far.

Another BGN 600 million is planned for its continuation until September.