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.

The procedures and principles regarding the implementation of cash wage support to be made within the scope of the temporary article 24 of the unemployment insurance law numbered 4447 on 22/4/2020 have been published by the Social Security Institution.

The scope is determined as follows:

ARTICLE 2- (1) These Procedures and Principles are among the insured under the Law No. 4447;

a) As of 17/4/2020, the employers whose employment contracts have been granted unpaid leave under the temporary 10th article of the Labor Law dated 22/5/2003 and numbered 4857, and who cannot benefit from short-time work allowance,

b) Includes employees whose employment contracts were terminated under Article 51 of Law No. 4447 after 15/3/2020 and who could not benefit from unemployment benefits in accordance with other provisions of the same Law.

Application principles are determined as follows:

ARTICLE 5- (1) In terms of the employees who are entitled to unpaid leave under the subparagraph (a) of the first paragraph of Article 2;

a) Monthly notifications regarding the employees who are entitled to unpaid leave in order to benefit from cash wage support are made by the employers via web page https://uyg.sgk.gov.tr/IsverenSistemi, until the 3rd of the month following the month when the unpaid leave. For employees notified in this way, the reason for the missing day in the Monthly Premium and Service Documents / Withholding and Premium Service Declarations of the relevant month should be selected as "28-Pandemic Unpaid Leave". Those who employ more than 10 days of insured in home services within the scope of Article-9 of the Law No. 5510, should report this change to the Social Security Provincial Directorates / Social Security Centers with the same missing day code until the end of the month when the unpaid leave is granted.

Due to the announced curfew which will be applicable on 24.04.2020 for 31 cities; the monthly social security premium service declaration of March 2020 has been extended until 27.4.2020 all over Türkiye.

The announcement published by SGK is as follows:

"As it is known, the legal submission period of the monthly premium and service document to be issued for 2020 / March expires on Friday 24/4/2020 (the official holiday of 23/4/2020).

However, on 20/4/2020, our President Mr. Recep Tayyip ERDOĞAN announced that the curfew restrictions will be applied in 31 provinces from 00:00 on 23/04/2020 until 00:00 on 26/04/2020 and on Friday 24/4/2020. Also due to the restrictions take to the streets and in order to avoid victimization of workplaces, the submission period of the monthly premium service declaration of March 2020 is extended to 27.04.2020 until 23:29 on all over Türkiye 2020.

New measures have been introduced by the Government due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

In this context, the updates published in the Official Gazette dated 16/04/2020 and numbered 31102 are as follows:

Fund Support

Employees who have not benefit from short-term employment and who have been granted unpaid leave within the framework of the temporary article added to the Unemployment Insurance Law numbered 4447 and the temporary tenth article of the Labor Law numbered 4857 and those who have not been able to benefit from unemployment allowance after 15/3/2020, The Fund will be provided with 39.24 Turkish Lira cash support every day, during the prohibition of termination determined under the temporary article 10 of the Labor Law No. 4857, provided that it does not receive any old age pensions.

You can find the related article below:

ARTICLE 7 - The following temporary article has been added to the Unemployment Insurance Law No. 4447, dated 25/8/1999.

"TEMPORARY ARTICLE 24 - Employment contracts were terminated within the scope of Article 51 after 15/3/2020 with the employees who had a work permit at the date of entry into force of this article, and who could not benefit from the short-time work allowance pursuant to the temporary article 10 of the Law No. 4857. According to the other provisions of the Law, the employees who cannot benefit from the unemployment allowance, as long as they do not have a termination pension from any social security institution and do not exceed the period to be terminated in the temporary 10th article of the Law numbered 4857, until the period of their unpaid leave, 39 24 Turkish Lira cash fee support is provided. No deduction can be made from payments made, except stamp tax.