National Insurance Law (Amendment – Double Allowances) Bill

What does the bill do?

The bill changes the National Insurance Law to cancel the full offset of allowances (senior citizen's, survivors', income supplement, dependents' supplement to the disability allowance) when the allowance recipient is eligible for unemployment benefits. Under the bill, unemployment benefits will be calculated as income from work, but will be deducted only in part from the basic allowance and not from the dependents' supplements. The original benefit eligibility will not be reduced because of the changes. The provision will start in January 2023 and will apply to allowances that began to be paid from that date onward.