They will receive a single proof of insurance awareness from EFKA employers who hire young people and therefore have to insure them under additional insurance in newly created Additional Capitalization Insurance Fund (TEKA). The new joint ministerial decision clarifies that contributions, at least in future years, will be collected by e-EFKA and then paid out by TEKA. When an employer requests insurance information, he issues and provides him with a single confirmation of the contribution information of both e-EFKA and TEKA. If there is an overdue debt, the person to whom the overdue debt exists is indicated in the body of the relevant information statement or the relevant debt statement. And when payment is made to the Insurance Debt Collection Center, TEKA’s debts will be collected as a matter of priority.

As he explains talking to “K” Secretary General of Social Insurance Paulina Caraciotou, the way in which insurance premiums are declared and paid in this first stage of TEKA’s activity is perhaps the most important part of the work of the Ministry of Labour. In accordance with the law, e-EFKA actually manages the collection mechanism on behalf of TEKA. With the aforementioned ministerial decision, notes Ms. Karasiotou, a number of issues of particular importance to insured individuals and employers have been identified and defined: register of insured persons. And adds that “KYA covers important issues for which applications are under development and will be gradually implemented, such as a single certificate of insurance awareness, management of delinquent premiums, as well as management of unreasonably paid premiums.” Especially for the latter, the Secretary General of the Ministry notes, “Employers who erroneously paid contributions to TEKA instead of EFKA will very soon be able, at the first stage, to set off their obligation to pay contributions to e-EFKA, since it is expected that the corresponding application will be launched within the next few weeks.”

The contribution to TEKA will be made by EFKA without the participation of the employer.

It should be noted that the registration of new labor market participants in TEKA exceeded even the most optimistic forecasts, reaching 51,000 out of 31,000 employers in the first half of the year. Thus, the set target of up to 60,000 people insured by the Fund by the end of 2022 appears to be exceeded, and it is now projected that they will reach 80,000 people by the end of 2022. The EP has, inter alia, determined that in the e-EFKA information system the insurance premiums payable to TEKA will be shown separately from the insurance premiums to e-EFKA. In addition, insurance premiums in favor of TEKA are collected separately through different payment details (RF).

In case of partial payment by APD-TEKA, the collected insurance premiums are distributed among TEKA insured persons in proportion to the premiums due. TEKA digitally informs the Center for the Collection of Insurance Contributions (KEAO) through the e-EFKA systems in order to attest and impute to each debtor the overdue obligations that exist and relate to the ancillary.

Finally, the KYC explicitly provides that debtors’ arrears to TEKA are collected by KEAO in priority order over all other debts of the same debtor to other insurance funds, regardless of the date of certification of the debt and the method of collection. (one-time payment, regulation, enforcement, etc.) and are TEKA.