A team of the National Transparency Authority carried out an audit of the Electronic National Social Security Agency (e-EFKA) from 26.04.2022 to 27.06.2022, following reports from the Panhellenic Federation of Unions of Civil Servant Engineers Graduated Higher Schools (P.O. E.M. D.Y.D.A.S.), regarding incorrect debt charges to engineers with exclusive salaried employment in the State, as until the commencement of Law 4387/2016 they were subject to a single Register with self-employed professionals.
Civil Servant Engineers were wrongly seen as self-employed and shown as liable to pay contributions, when they were not. In the 2019 debt settlement, incorrect “self-employed” insurance debts were posted for thousands of insured Civil Engineers and forwarded to the Insurance Debt Collection Center (KEAO) despite the fact that the insurance contributions had been paid.
The consequence of the above was:
– the loss of the insurance capacity of civil servants and their protected members from 1.3.2022
– the inability to perform scheduled medical procedures and prescriptions
– the inability to grant insurance information
– the taking of forced collection measures against them by confiscation of bank accounts.
The relevant Directorate of the Agency searched for information from the AADE and an automatic suspension of insurance and issuance of notices was carried out from 1.1.2020 for thousands of insured non-self-employed persons. The automated process was repeated in March 2022 for the years from 2017 to 2019 with retroactive cancellation of contributions/dues.
The echelon of E.A.D. proposed, in addition, to the Agency’s Management to take the following actions:
-to check within a quarter the registrations in the Self Employed Register
– to include the insured persons in question in a separate Register from the self-employed
– to correlate the results of the liquidation and the data sent to the KEAO for correction and automatic deletion of the debt
– to automatically inform the insured individually about possible (corrective) actions when they receive notices
– to submit the supporting documents electronically and to instruct their labor services to refund or set off the additional deductions due that were made through payroll.
e-EFKA responding to the proposals of the Inspectors – Auditors of the EAD has launched the necessary procedures in cooperation with the involved bodies and contractors with the aim of the correct implementation of the provisions with a view to better serving the insured.
Source: Capital
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