Football club in court over social insurance payments
A Nicosia football club will be facing trial this week over the non-payment of €2.3 million in social insurance contributions, it emerged on Monday.
It is apparently the first such trial ...
Social insurance fund speeds up benefit payments
Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou announced on Thursday that there have been improvements in the speed of payments from the social insurance fund.
Comparing data from June 2024 to June 2023, Panayiotou highlighted ...
Social insurance call centre took over 230,000 calls in six months
Since it went live in May, the call centre for social insurance and welfare benefits enquiries has taken some 230,000 calls, MPs heard on Monday.
Just under half of the calls ...
Government-sponsored holidays to begin on Sunday
The social insurance services’ subsidised holiday scheme is set to get underway for the summer period on Sunday.
The scheme will operate until September 29, with successful applicants to the scheme ...
Social welfare hotline launches in Cyprus
Questions on social security services and welfare benefits can be directed to the 1450 call centre as of Thursday.
The new contact centre, offered free of charge, launched its operations earlier ...
Social insurance fund viable until 2080, ministry says
Based on the latest actuarial study the sustainability of the Social Insurance fund is guaranteed over the longer term, the ministry of labour announced on Friday.
The statement appears to ...
Special benefits paid before Christmas
All pensions and benefits that fall under the responsibility of the labour ministry and social insurance will be paid before Christmas.
A ministry announcement on Monday clarified that special pensions ...
Government plans to extend period people can pay social insurance arrears
The government plans to extend by a further four months a scheme allowing people the opportunity to pay their arrears in social insurance contributions in instalments.
Speaking in parliament on ...
Coronavirus: Reduced staff at social insurance office
The social insurance office on Athalassa Avenue will operate with reduced staff from Wednesday May 12 to Friday May 14 because of positive cases of coronavirus.
To ensure service continues as normal, ...
Discussion on new bill to settle social insurance arrears wraps up
Lawmakers on Tuesday wrapped up discussion of a government bill introducing a new scheme for settling arrears in social insurance contributions, with a view to taking the item to the ...
Social insurance staff say their workplace is unsafe following Thursday’s quake
Saying that the earthquake which rattled Cyprus on Thursday only underscored the sorry state of their current premises, employees working at the social insurance department on Byron Avenue in Nicosia ...
New portal for online payments to social security
Authorities on Thursday presented the new portal for online payments of social insurance contributions which will be launched on Friday.
The use of ‘SISnet’ will be made obligatory as of ...