The National Insurance will publish today, 16/2/26, for public comments, a proposal to amend the National Insurance Law that seeks to grant exemption from insurance contributions to people in nursing situation who need to employ a foreign worker due to some functional disability.
The law is intended to improve the situation of people with nursing needs who have become employers and to ease the bureaucratic and economic aspects related to their situation, which is not benign anyway, when it comes to senior citizens or people dealing with more severe physical disabilities.
In accordance with the proposed legal amendment, the Minister of Labor will be able to determine in regulations an exemption from reporting and payment of insurance contributions for an individual (as opposed to a company or other corporation) who employs a foreign worker as a result of his need for long-term care benefits.
It should be emphasized that if the foreign worker is injured during his work, etc., he will still be insured for benefits such as: work-injury disability, according to the law.
The Ministry of Finance has so far opposed the law due to budgetary costs, and the law will be brought before it again after the implementation of the regulations, as stated, with the intention of helping the population in need of this assistance.