The National House of Social Insurance (CNAS) reminds that the companies whose employees didn’t constitute a trade union organization can ask for health spa tickets at reduced prices from the local social insurance offices. 80% of the price of these tickets is paid by the social insurance authority.
Head of the CNAS General Finance and Social Insurance Division Elena Costin has told IPN that 30 million lei was allocated in 2014 for the purpose. There were purchased over 6,000 sanatorium tickets for insured persons. Any company can apply for such tickets for its employees, proportionally to the contributions transferred to the state social insurance budget. The employer decides who to give tickets depending on the length of service and performance of the employees. An employee can receive such a ticket once in three years.
Elena Costin said that some of the economic entities avoid asking for health spa tickets, arguing they do not have time to go to the local social insurance offices and fill out the necessary forms, while the employees do not even know that they are deprived of the right to receive treatment at health spa resorts. Another reason for such a low interest on the part of employers is the length of the health spa treatment, which is 18 days. The employees’ leave is shorter.
The CNAS provides health spa tickets to the following sanatoriums: “Struguras” in Cocieri, Dubasari; “Bucuria-Sind”, Vadul-lui-Voda; “Nufarul Alb” in Cahul, “Codru” in Calarasi; “Constructorul” in Chisinau, and those situated in Ukraine – “Sergei Lazo” and “Orizontul” in Sergheevca and “Moldova” in Truscavet. A sanatorium ticket costs almost 6,000 lei, with 80% of its cost being covered with money from the state social insurance budget.
