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Implementation of President's Address: More than 9,000 Kazakhstani citizens received special social payments

Implementation of President's Address: More than 9,000 Kazakhstani citizens received special social payments
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Since 1 January 2024, on the instructions of the Head of State, a special social payment has been introduced in Kazakhstan to implement systematic measures to improve social protection of workers employed in hazardous working conditions, primeminister.kz reports.

Obligatory conditions for the special payment are reaching the age of 55 and the presence of mandatory professional pension contributions to the Unified National Pension Fund for at least 7 years.

To date, 9,145 citizens who have worked in harmful labour conditions for a long time have been assigned a special social payment in the amount of 1.7 billion tenge.

The payment is made from 4 sources of funding sources - the republican budget, the Unified Accumulative Pension Fund, from the employer and from the life insurance company.

The largest number of applicants for special payment is registered in Karaganda region (1696 people), Kostanay region (1180 people), East Kazakhstan region (1132 people), Pavlodar region (1015 people), Aktobe region (599 people), Akmola region (566 people) and Abay region (505 people).

The average size of the special payment is about 208 thousand tenge. Employees can switch to jobs with less harmful labour conditions, while continuing to receive both wages and the special payment. Or they can retire, receiving the payment until the appointment of a pension.

The special payment will be paid until retirement age. After retirement, the state basic and solidarity pensions will be granted to these persons in addition to the payments from the Unified National Pension Fund.
 

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