Once in three years employees may request vouchers for treatment in health resorts

The money for employees’ treatment in health resorts will be distributed to economic entities proportionally, depending on the amounts of the contributions transferred by them to the social insurance budgets in the previous year, under regulations recently adopted by the Government, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to Minister of Social Protection Valentina Buliga, these regulations define the mechanism of distributing vouchers for treatment in health resorts and also increase the responsibility of the participants responsible for organizing this process. The new information system of the National Social Insurance Corporation allows for the automatic distribution of money for the allocation of such vouchers, excluding the human factor, said the minister. The regulations preserve the right of the labor unions to participate in the administration of the funds destined for the treatment of the insured employees. The unions will be able to allocate vouchers for treatment to the employees who have paid social insurance contributions for at least 6 months. The treatment vouchers are allocated once in a three years. Employees cover only 20 percent of the treatment’s cost; for ambulatory treatment employees pay only 15 percent.