Article 17 of Law No. 5510 grants employers the opportunity to benefit from retroactive incentives or make changes to existing incentives. In this context, it has been determined that the differential premium amounts, resulting from the utilization of retroactive incentives or incentive modifications for the month of March 2018 or earlier, must be settled with legal interest in accordance with the third paragraph of the mentioned article.

SGK has provided specific details on this matter in its General Letter numbered 82296733, dated 13.10.2023:

With the General Communiqué on National Vehicle Identification System Application (Row No: 1) has been published in the Official Gazette No. 32330 on October 5, 2023.

With the General Communiqué on National Vehicle Identification System Application;

• Obligation of installing National Vehicle Identification System in fuel stations has been introduced, and procedures and principles regarding the application have been determined.
• Regulations have been made regarding the automatic transmission of license plate information to the new generation fuel pump payment recorder devices in fuel sales offered at fuel station businesses and the determination of the technical specifications of the system accordingly.
• Information sharing about the system and other procedures and principles within the scope of the application have been determined.

According to the general letter dated September 22, 2023, numbered E-83604451-207.02-80971419, published by the Social Security Institution (In Turkish), there has been uncertainty regarding whether individuals who were registered to Social Security Institution before September 8, 1999 and meet the criteria of insurance period, the number of premium payment days, and age conditions can benefit from the 5-point social security premium incentive. It is also mentioned that the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, which funds this incentive, has been consulted to clarify this matter.

With the Communique dated September 1, 2023 and numbered 2023/25, the procedures regarding the minimum wage support for the period July 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023 have been published by the Social Security Institution (In Turkish).

As a summary, in case that all conditions are met, the minimum wage support will be automatically deducted from the social security premium payments on the upcoming periods by the Social Security Institution without any application.