Nicosia’s Ayios Andreas social insurance branch to close
The department of social insurance is closing its branch on Nicosia’s Navarinou Street in Ayios Andreas, it said in an announcement on Tuesday. It said...
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Number of social insurance cheats runs just over 4,000
Some 4,000 criminal cases involving cheating on social insurance contributions were pending at the end of April this year, the Social Insurance Services said in...
New regulations for filing social insurance contributions
As of Thursday, employers must file their social insurance contributions for the month of February – payments due at end of March – only via...
Lawmakers drawing up new scheme for delayed social insurance payments
Despite government misgivings, lawmakers said on Tuesday they are pressing ahead with drafting a new scheme for people in arrears with their social insurance contributions....
New bill seeks to help those with social insurance debts
The House labour committee on Tuesday discussed a new bill on helping those that owe money to the social insurance fund pay their debt in...
Refusal to pay social insurance as act of civil disobedience appeal overturned
The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of lawyer Michalis Paraskevas who was charged for refusing to pay social insurance contributions as a form of...
Over 1,000 apply to pay social insurance in instalments
Over 1,000 applications for payment of unpaid social contributions by employers and self-employed individuals in instalments have been received since August 1, when the scheme...
Bill passed for social insurance instalments
Parliament on Thursday unanimously passed a bill allowing the payment of overdue social insurance contributions through 54 monthly instalments instead of the 48 proposed by...
Government submits bill for overdue social insurance payments
The government has submitted a new bill allowing the payment of overdue social insurance contributions through 48 monthly instalments instead of 36 it had previously...
Doctors busted in Paphos pensioners’ scam
IN the latest scam involving the medical profession, two private sector doctors were arrested in Paphos on Friday in connection with a case of forged...
Social Insurance Fund will honour promises, labour minister says (Update-1)
The Social Insurance Fund will be in position to honour its promise to pensioners without resorting to an increase of contributions or reducing pensions and...
New scheme to keep social insurance debtors out of jail
A government bill enabling people to pay in monthly instalments their dues to the Social Insurance Fund will be voted on at the plenum this...
Unpaid state fines total more than 200m euros
By Evie Andreou The state is owed more than €200m in outstanding fines, the majority of them for social insurance contributions, criminal offences and traffic...
Stay of execution for social insurance backsliders
By Elias Hazou A government bill providing for the payment in instalments of dues to the social security fund (SIF) is to be tabled to...
Cyprus in EU top ten for undeclared work
By Jean Christou Cyprus is among the top ten EU countries with the highest rates of undeclared work with a percentage of around 25 per...
One in five construction workers undeclared
One in five workers in the construction sector do not have social insurance, Labour and Social Insurance Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Saturday, urging contractors...
State will try to facilitate troubled SMEs
The government will look into whether it can help small and medium businesses survive by allowing them to pay overdue VAT and social insurance through...
Football clubs must settle taxes by Monday
FIRST division football clubs must settle all their outstanding arrears by Monday at the latest or else be found in breach of UEFA regulations and...
Building sector ‘dictatorship’ says union
By Peter Stevenson UNIONS have accused building contractors of not paying employees on time, of cutting wages, and in some cases having not paid workers...
‘Pension cuts will only affect the well-off’
By Constantinos Psillides Finance minister Harris Georgiades said yesterday that cuts to what is known as the ‘social pension’ would only affect those elderly people...
