The Nation payment to suspended: IPS expects to know budget fund to make disbursements
After promulgating the Sanitary Emergency Law, whose validity was extended until June 30 of this year, remains to wait for the document and regulatory decree to first know how much the budget fund for the Social Security Institute (IPS) ofway to continue paying the suspended.
This is what the IPS Economic Benefits Manager said, Cecilia Rodríguez, in relation to the extension of the Emergency Law and the request to the pension payment of labor and isolation suspensions for the epidemiological context of the COVID-19.
“Payment to work suspended and isolates is again in force with the approval of yesterday's law.We are waiting because we have to see the promulgation, in order to have the regulatory decree and the approval of the budget line, ”Rodríguez said in contact with the 1020 am.
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Regarding the procedure for payments and disbursements, he mentioned that the process they had the previous year and in 2020 will continue, but that the employer's data has to be checked, check the worker's suspension, cross the data with the Ministry ofWork, and estimated that there would be a queue of requests due to the rebound of cases that devastates at the country level.
High number of rests
In that sense, the IPS Economic Benefits Manager indicated that in fact during the first two weeks they had a very important outbreak, and that they are currently with about 4.000 PLACES BY COVID-19 reported.
Likewise, he recalled that in December approximately 3 was paid.500 workers who were still temporarily suspended in their employment and that had been pending about 2.000 people who did not charge December compensation.
Regarding the fund that was managed until last year, he said that there is still a small remnant of US $ 100 million, but that the authorization of a new budget line is effectively needed to continue complying with the suspended insured, he said.
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