In the General Letter No. 20662475 dated 27/12/2019, SSI has announced that as of 2020/January monthly premium and service declaration, if the employers who have the wrong incentive record submit the premium and service document with the same or different incentive law number, the retrospective incentive change requests under the scope of Law no 5510, Article 17 would not be proceed unless the records in the wrong incentive list are corrected.

In the General Letter No. 4909683 dated 23/3/2020, SSI has announced the deadlines and instructions with regards to the monthly premium and service declarations of the employers who made their applications for benefiting from the previous premium promotion, support and discounts within the legal period.

However, they need some revisions with regards to the deadlines due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Based on this, SGK has published a new announcement dated 22.05.2020 and numbered 6237651. The relevant provisions of the SSI are as follows:

-Within the scope of the first paragraph of the Article 17 of the Law No. 5510, to benefit from an incentive or for a retrospective incentive change, related to 2018 / April and beyond;

With the joint press statement given on 15 March 2020 by the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services, Ministry of Treasury and Finance and Ministry of Industry and Technology; it was declared that teknopark companies will be able to conduct their activities outside of the area until the end of April 2020, by notifying the ministry, and can continue to benefit from exemptions and incentives.

What is Minimum Wage Support?

Minimum wage support is the legal support provided to the employers within the scope of payment of insurance premiums in order to minimize the burden on employers.

Minimum Wage Support entered into force with the Law No. 6661 on the Military Service Law and Law on The Amendment of Some Laws published in the Official Gazette No. 29606 dated 27 January 2016.

It is stated in the Article 17 of the Law that;

The provisional Article 68 has been added to the Social Insurance and General Health Insurance Law No. 5510 and the amount to be found as a result of multiplication of 3,33 TL per day for January / December 2016 will be deducted from insurance premiums to be paid to the institution by the employers with the necessary conditions and this amount will be met by the treasure.