Over the first 9 months of this year, payments from the State Social Insurance Fund (hereinafter referred to as the SSIF) covered 1 million 205.8 thousand citizens who are participants in the compulsory social insurance system, for a total of 699.9 billion tenge.

The SSIF makes payments for 5 social risks: in case of loss of ability to work, in case of loss of a breadwinner, in case of loss of a job, in case of loss of income due to pregnancy and childbirth, adoption of a newborn child (children), in case of loss of income due to caring for a child up to one and a half years.

Payments in cases of loss of ability to work and loss of a breadwinner are assigned in addition to the corresponding state benefits. Their size depends on the average monthly income from which social contributions to the State Social Insurance Fund were made over the past 2 years, the coefficients of loss of working capacity, the number of dependents, the length of participation in the compulsory social insurance system (hereinafter referred to as the system) and income replacement.

A payment for loss of work is assigned for a period of 1 to 6 months in the amount of up to 45% of lost income, depending on the length of participation in the system and income over the past 24 months. This payment is made regardless of the reasons for dismissal and is intended to support an unemployed person during the period when he is looking for a job.

A one-time payment in the event of loss of income due to pregnancy and childbirth, adoption of a newborn child (children) is assigned for all days of maternity leave.Its size depends on the average monthly income from which social contributions were made to the State Social Insurance Fund over the last 12 months before the date of maternity leave and the number of days of incapacity for work.

A monthly payment in the event of loss of income due to caring for a child under one and a half years old is assigned from the date of birth of the child. The amount of the payment is 40% of the average monthly income from which social contributions were made to the State Social Insurance Fund over the last 2 years. When two or more children are born, the payment is assigned for each child separately.

It should be noted that out of 1.2 million recipients, 583.4 thousand people applied for social benefits in 2024.

At the same time, the State Social Insurance Fund is systematically working to prevent the misuse of funds allocated for payments to citizens.

Thus, in this year, the SFSS employees identified more than 1.4 thousand individual entrepreneurs (hereinafter referred to as IEs) using various schemes to receive social benefits in an inflated amount. Letters were sent to law enforcement agencies, which described the mechanisms used by IEs when transferring contributions, and lists of IEs whose actions contributed to the unjustified withdrawal of funds from the social insurance system.

During the SFSS inspections of the actual employment of employees of such IEs, 64 IEs were identified who denied having hired workers.At the same time, they explain social contributions from their individual entrepreneurs for non-existent employees by the transfer of electronic keys to accountants who filled out reports for them to the tax authorities.

Work on establishing labor relations is ongoing for 479 individual entrepreneurs.

Cases have also been identified where social contributions to the State Social Insurance Fund were transferred from several individual entrepreneurs for one person with the aim of subsequently assigning payments in an unreasonably inflated amount.

To date, the State Social Insurance Fund has transferred materials to law enforcement agencies on 11 individual entrepreneurs (Aktobe, Pavlodar regions and Almaty).

Inspections are ongoing in all regions of the republic, materials are being prepared for transfer to law enforcement agencies.

The process of reviewing documents for new applicants who deliberately inflate their income in order to receive payments from the State Social Insurance Fund in an inflated amount has also been tightened. These measures are aimed at suppressing and preventing illegal actions, thereby ensuring fair social protection for all participants in the compulsory social insurance system.

Let us recall that the law provides for criminal liability for fraudulent actions.

 

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