ZAGREB, May 20 (Hina) - The Croatian Government at Thursday's session discussed the effects of measures for the payment of contributions for pension and health insurance. The basic goal of the measures is to lessen economic
expenditure by expanding the basic rate for contributions, Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa said. The Government is obligated to protect all those conducting legitimate business and paying their contributions, but are their market positions are threatened by those who give themselves the right not to pay contributions, Matesa said. Reporting on the effects hitherto regarding the quick payment of contributions, director of the Croatian Pension Insurance Bureau, Dunja Vidosevic, stressed the bureau received US$257 million in April, surpassing the usual US$128.5 million. This such payments and without increases of the bureau's obligations, monthly deficit would be about US$28.6 million. In the
ZAGREB, May 20 (Hina) - The Croatian Government at Thursday's
session discussed the effects of measures for the payment of
contributions for pension and health insurance.
The basic goal of the measures is to lessen economic expenditure by
expanding the basic rate for contributions, Prime Minister Zlatko
Matesa said.
The Government is obligated to protect all those conducting
legitimate business and paying their contributions, but are their
market positions are threatened by those who give themselves the
right not to pay contributions, Matesa said.
Reporting on the effects hitherto regarding the quick payment of
contributions, director of the Croatian Pension Insurance Bureau,
Dunja Vidosevic, stressed the bureau received US$257 million in
April, surpassing the usual US$128.5 million. This such payments
and without increases of the bureau's obligations, monthly deficit
would be about US$28.6 million.
In the past two months, the bureau received about US$5.7 million out
of the total US$585.7 million of debt, Vidosevic said. She added
this was a book debt, and the bureau would soon publish the
information how much ratepayers are in debt.
Vidosevic said from the total of 89,000 ratepayers in 1998, 66,000
of them had not paid their contributions, they were legal subjects,
primarily.
Many are paying their contributions based on the least basic rate of
US$196 a month.
The Government adopted a decree on forensic investigation in
pension insurance, which regulates medical procedures to determine
invalidity.
There are only 16 per cent of pensioners with a full working life in
Croatia (40 years for men and 35 years for women), while the others
got their pensions based on invalidity.
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