The Social Security Agreement between Moldova and Turkey and the Administrative Agreement on the implementation of the Social Security Agreement between the two states take effect on June 1. This is the 13th agreement of the kind implemented by the National House of Social Insurance (CNAS), IPN reports, quoting a press release of the institution.
The agreement stipulates the conditions of setting and providing the old-age, disability and successor’s pension, unemployment benefit, maternity benefit and allowance for temporary incapacity for work caused by professional diseases, work accidents and others in the two states.
Under the agreement, the citizens who worked legally and paid social insurance contributions in Turkey, when they reach retirement in accordance with the legislation of this country or another insured risk stipulated in the legislation occurs, the pension or another social benefit is set and is transferred to the bank account opened in Moldova.
Similar social security measures are envisioned for persons with permanent residence in Turkey, who worked legally in Moldova and reached retirement in accordance with Moldova’s legislation. This way, each of the two countries pays the part of the pension or another social benefit for the insurance period recorded in the given country.
To benefit from the pension or other types of welfare in accordance with Moldova’s legislation, the person should file an application to the National House of Social Insurance, the National Employment Agency or the competent institution of Turkey, by attaching the required documents.
Additional information about the necessary documents depending on the type of benefit is available on the CNAS’s official website.
When the agreement takes effect, the person who receives pension or another social benefit in Moldova and goes to live in Turley on a permanent basis, to continue to receive the benefit calculated in the public social insurance system, should submit an application with information about the bank account opened at a Turkish bank to the CNAS or the Social Security Institution of Turkey. At the end of each year, the recipient of pension is obliged to present a certificate confirming that the person is alive to the CNAS.
The National House of Social Insurance currently implements 12 social security agreements with Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, Luxemburg, Austria, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, and Germany. Until now the CNAS set over 840 pensions for persons who live in these states.
