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Friday, 26.04.2024, 10:12
Social contributions to be raised 1 pp to ensure financing for health care sector in Latvia
The government coalition parties agreed earlier that the social insurance
contributions will be raised by 1 percentage point – 0.5% for contributions
paid by employers, and 0.5 for employees. So in the future, mandatory social
insurance contributions will amount to 35.09% – 24.09% paid by employer, and
11% paid by employee.
Increase of the mandatory social insurance contributions will ensure
additional EUR 84.6 million to the health care sector next year, EUR 98.1
million in 2019, and EUR 103.9 million in 2020.
The amendments also provide that employees for which the general mandatory
social insurance contribution is made, will be subjects to health insurance and
will have the right to receive government-funded health care services.
Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis
on July 5 gave a task to Health Minister Anda
Caksa in cooperation with the Finance Ministry, the Welfare Ministry and
other responsible institutions, social partners and NGOs to prepare a bill on
health care financing and submit it to the Cabinet of Ministers by August 30.