| Dominican firms to be reimbursed RD$5.9B with Health Insurance's delay |
| Domican-Today |
| 5/30/2007 |
Source: The Dominican Today
SANTO DOMINGO.- Since early Wednesday the Security Social Treasury (TSS) began reimbursing the money which 1,120 companies had already paid for the Family Health Insurance (SFS) -whose services were to begin Friday June 1- after president Leonel Fernandez postponed the SFS start Tuesday night and set September 1 as the new date.
To date, all the companies which had paid the notifications issued by the TSS were small, whose total reached RD$5.9 billion.
These companies are being contacted and the reimbursements are expected to conclude "in the coming days," said TSS treasurer Henry Sadhal?quoted by Clave Digital. This process is part of the substitutions of the notifications of payment, corresponding to May, which the TSS began to apply "immediately" concluded the President's speech last night.
These notifications, issued May 15, will be replaced by those which don't include the Family Health Insurance component of the contributive regime, so the companies pay only the unemployment insurance, pensions, and disability and death benefits, said Sadhal?BR>
The Family Health Insurance component will again be included next August 15. Collection of this insurance will have to begin on this date, if Fernandez's decision to begin services September 1 remains unchanged, which is to say, within 90 days.
Most companies, especially the large ones, hadn't paid the invoices issued by the TSS for May, from expectations that this insurance would be postponed, and following the suggestion they wait until the last day the law allowed, -June 3- before making that payment.
For that reason, many companies, maybe the majority, discounted from their employees the obligatory contribution to the SFS without paying to the TSS, on which Sadhal?aid reimbursing workers would depend on the firm's internal policy. "The company and the worker will have to reach an agreement."
He said there's little probability company workers were left without health coverage from the SFS postponement, as a result of private insurances being cancelled. "Apparently not, all the people who have called us today, and I can tell you that they are many, had received information from the ARS that in case the Family Health Insurance didn't begin, they were going to continue with their plan (private insurance), that is, that I expect that that remains, and that no worker is devoid of health insurance in the next 3 months." |
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