P. Tsakloglou: Smooth adaptation to the new era of Auxiliary Capital Insurance

“The architecture of auxiliary insurance has changed in order for the country’s insurance system to adapt in time to the growing challenges posed by the demographic problem, the size of undeclared work and the development model of the Greek economy. The new TEKA public fund is organized and cooperates with “EFKA to manage the needs of the new supplementary system that provides for the gradual conversion of the supplementary pension system from distributive to capitalized. This was pointed out yesterday by the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Mr. Panos Tsakloglou during his speech at the information event on “TEKA: New data for employers and companies”, organized by the Auxiliary Capital Insurance Fund (TEKA) in collaboration with the e-EFKA.

The event was mainly for professionals and freelancers and took place hybrid, both live in the “Hermes” room of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EVEA) and online. Special emphasis was given to the issues of inclusion of the insured in the Fund and especially to the changes concerning the process of submitting the monthly Detailed Periodic Declarations (DPA) and the payment of contributions.

The Secretary General of Social Security and President of the Temporary Governor of TEKA, Mrs. Pavlina Karasiotou, presented the progress of the Fund so far and the goals / milestones for 2022, noting the following: “The implementation of one of the biggest reforms in Our insurance history: Capitalization is a project that has been discussed for decades in our country and now it is becoming a reality. The Register and the APD of TEKA, which we presented today to professional bodies, were developed in a very short time with a lot of effort by the executives of TEKA, EFKA and IDIKA. , 5 months, while extremely important actions such as the trial operation of the MyTEKA platform have been planned c for the next months of 2022 “.

Then the First Deputy Commander of e-EFKA and member of the Temporary Commander of TEKA, Alexandros Varveris, referred to the contribution of e-EFKA and the distinct responsibilities of the two Bodies.

This was followed by presentations by thematic unit by executives of the Auxiliary Capital Insurance Fund and by e-EFKA on issues of inclusion in the insurance of employees and non-employees, changes in the submission of DPAs and the payment of contributions, as well as issues of insurance awareness and management overdue debts. Specifically, the fund executives presented the following thematic sections:

· The rules of affiliation to TEKA (which are subject to the TEKA subsidiary).

· The applications that were implemented for the control of the affiliation or not to TEKA both by the employer and by the insured.

· The new application for the electronic submission of the insurance declaration to TEKA (APD – TEKA).

· To facilitate the market, the DPA for TEKA has exactly the same structure and functionality as the existing DPA submitted by employers to e-EFKA.

· New notices received by the self-employed for their auxiliary in TEKA.

· The unified management of overdue debts (to e-EFKA & to TEKA) by KEAO.

· The uniform insurance information that presupposes the insured to be aware of both his debts to TEKA and his debts to e-EFKA.